LGBT News ACLU to challenge Virginia gay marriage ban in court

Aldrick · Jul 11, 2013

Two weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia announced that it wants to challenge in federal court Virginia's 2006 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

“Thousands of Virginia couples are already living the deep commitment associated with marriage, without legal recognition of their relationships. They and their children deserve the legal protections that come with state-recognized marriage,” ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Claire G. Gastañaga said Tuesday.

“There is no rational reason for denying these loving couples the freedom to marry and every reason to grant them the same recognition by civil authorities that opposite-sex couples have,” Gastañaga said.

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Lawyers from the ACLU of Virginia will join a team of lawyers from the national ACLU and Lambda Legal – a civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities – that will argue that the Virginia constitution and statutes denying the freedom to marry violate the federal constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law, according to a statement released by the organization.

“Support for the freedom to marry is part of the Virginia ACLU's DNA,” Gastañaga said. “We were founded by the lawyers who brought the Loving v. Virginia case that established the freedom to marry across racial lines, and we hope that by the time of our 50th anniversary in 2019, we will be able to say that we were part of the court case that brought the freedom to marry to all Virginia couples regardless of sexual orientation,” she said.
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BryanM · Jul 12, 2013

And to believe this is the SAME state where bigot Ken Cuccinelli, who is trying to uphold the state's outdated sodomy laws in the supreme court and run for governor and has a chance of winning...

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