Arkansas couples ask federal judge to strike down state’s same-sex marriage ban
Attorneys for two same-sex couples asked an Arkansas federal judge Wednesday to order the striking down of the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
The attorneys requested a summary judgment, asking US District Judge Kristine Baker to rule the state’s constitutional amendment which outlaws same-sex marriage, and any other related laws, unconstitutional.
The lawsuit filed by the couples against the state was submitted last year before the state’s same-sex marriage ban was struck down, only to be reinstated.
On 9 May 2014, Judge Chris Piazza found that the state’s ban was unconstitutional, stating it was “an attempt to narrow the definition of equality” and calling the ban a “dangerous precedent.”
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/07/16/us-arkansas-couples-ask-federal-judge-to-strike-down-states-same-sex-marriage-ban/
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