Big News: Ohio Same-Sex Couples File Motion With US Supreme Court To Decide Marriage
Big news: The plaintiffs in two Ohio same-sex marriage cases have filed a motion requesting the U.S. Supreme Court review the 6th Circuit’s ruling that upheld same-sex marriage bans.
Same-sex couples and the widowers of two men have filed a 267 page petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that supported the right of states to ban same-sex marriage.
“The lawyers, which include the ACLU and Lambda Legal and are led by longtime Ohio advocate Alphonse Gerhardstein, filed the petition for a writ of certiorari on Friday, asking the court to take the case and reverse last week’s decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Ohio’s 2004 state and constitutional amendment barring recognition of same-sex couples’ marriages,” Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed first reported.
“These cases are about love, from birth to death,†the lawyers for the plaintiffs write, in setting up the case. “Ohio does not contest the validity of their out-of-state marriages; it simply refuses to recognize them,†they later note.
In over 50 rulings judges have decided on the side of same-sex marriage, and in only four, including the 6th Circuit’s, have they supported discrimination.
The Supreme Court of course can grant the request and review the case, or it can ignore it, or it can deny it.
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