LGBT News Gay couples to sue for the right to marry in Pennsylvania

Pain · Jul 9, 2013

Gay couples to sue for the right to marry in Pennsylvania

The ACLU is representing 23 plaintiffs –10 gay couples, two children of one of the couples, and the surviving widow of a same-sex couple that was together for 29 years — in a lawsuit it will file Tuesday in Harrisburg, Pa. James Esseks, who directs the ACLU’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project, said the group hopes to secure the right for gay couples to marry in Pennsylvania, force the state to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and ratchet up the legal pressure on the Supreme Court to ultimately rule on the question of whether same-sex marriage should be legal across the nation.

Noting that about half the couples in the lawsuit got legally married elsewhere in the United States, Esseks noted, “Pennsylvania recognizes straight people’s marriages from Maine and New York, but it doesn’t recognize gay people’s marriages from Maine and New York. The question is, why?”
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Maybe Pennsylvania's time is coming soon... It's about time that something happens here, because it's the only "northern" state left on the east coast. Maybe now there is precedent from the DOMA/Prop 8 cases as well.

The username · Jul 9, 2013

ACLU to challenge Va. same-sex marriage laws | WTVR.com

They are doing it in VA and NC too. Didn't look if they are doing it in other states as well, but all good news. Hopefully something will come out of this.

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