Gay rights group to train activists in Lauderdale

The Human Rights Campaign gay rights group plans to hold a "Camp Equality" boot camp today and Sunday.

The idea, the organization said, is to train people to work on political campaigns and defeat ballot measures such as the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

The organization, which worked in 2006 to help Ron Klein defeat then-U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, said it again would target key races.

The camp will end by 3 p.m. Sunday, according to the Web site of the Human Rights Campaign.