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Judge Taking a Look at Mich. Gay Marriage Ban
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Mar 06, 2013 03:17pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Ed White |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 6, 2013 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A lesbian couple's desire to adopt each other's children has grown into a potentially groundbreaking challenge to Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage.
Two Detroit-area nurses filed a lawsuit to try to overturn restrictions on adoption by same-sex partners. But at the judge's invitation, the case took an extraordinary turn and now will test the legality of a 2004 constitutional amendment that stipulates Michigan only recognizes marriages between a man and a woman.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman will hear arguments in the case Thursday at a Detroit law school, although he hasn't indicated when he'll make a ruling. If he concludes the amendment violates the U.S. Constitution, gay-marriage supporters say same-sex couples would immediately be allowed to wed and adopt children.
State officials, however, predict "potential legal chaos" if the judge throws out the gay marriage ban.
"This is not the road we thought we'd go down," Jayne Rowse, 48, said in an interview this week. "We thought Judge Friedman would rule one way or the other on second-parent adoption. No one anticipated this. It was out of left field." |
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