From the
Express-Times:
The American Civil Liberties Union said it will file the first
known legal challenge today seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning
same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania,
the only northeastern state that doesn't allow it or civil unions.
The lawsuit, to be filed in federal court in Harrisburg, also
will ask a federal judge to prevent state officials from stopping gay couples
from getting married. It names Gov. Tom Corbett, Attorney General Kathleen Kane
and three other officials. The plaintiffs are one widow, 10 couples and one of
the couples' two teenage daughters, and they include four couples who were
legally married in other states but whose marriages go unrecognized by the
state of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania
would become the 14th state to legalize gay marriage if the lawsuit is
successful. It also would force the state to recognize the legal marriages of
all same-sex couples in other jurisdictions...
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