Pennsylvania AG will not defend same-sex marriage ban

[JURIST] Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane [official website] announced at a press conference Thursday that she will not defend Pennsylvania's statutory ban on same-sex marriage. Title 23, Chapter 11, section 1102 of the Pennsylvania consolidated statutes defines [text] marriage as " A civil contract by which one man and one woman take each other for husband and wife." Kane's statements [WP report] are in response to a lawsuit [JURIST report] filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website]...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/pennsylvania-ag-will-not-defend-same-sex-marriage-ban.php

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