(Jerry) Brown won't fight court ruling on same-sex marriage [View All]

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Conservative groups that want the state Supreme Court to delay same-sex marriages in California until voters decide whether to reinstate a ban on those marriages in November ran into opposition Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown, whose office defended the ban in court.

A week after the 4-3 ruling striking down the law that allowed only opposite-sex couples to marry, Brown's office urged the court to let its ruling take effect in 30 days, as scheduled, despite the possibility that it would be undone later by a ballot measure.

... Liberty Counsel, representing the Campaign for California Families, filed a similar request Thursday and warned that "the plague of same-sex marriage will soon spread rapidly across the nation" if the ruling takes effect.

... Krueger, the state's lawyer, said the possibility of a reversal by the voters does not justify withholding rights from those who are legally entitled to them.

"Such an action would be tantamount to putting the (ballot) initiative into temporary effect more than five months before it is even submitted to the electorate," he wrote. "The court would ... set a dangerous and highly questionable precedent were it to manipulate its own processes to accommodate a political interest."


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