Posted on 10/29/2004 4:45:36 PM PDT by SmithL
AN FRANCISCO -- The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian advocacy law group from Arizona, asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to award it $229,000 in fees and costs to reimburse the litigation efforts that led to the blocking of San Francisco's gay marriages.
The group was the first party to request the justices block San Francisco from issuing any more same-sex marriage licenses. The court halted the wedding spree in March, after 4,000 licenses were issued.
In August, the court ruled San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom abused his powers when issuing the licenses in violation of a 1977 state law defining marriage between a man and woman. The court also voided all the marriages.
That decision prompted the city of San Francisco, and gay and lesbian couples denied marriage licenses to sue in state court. Among other things, they allege the 1977 marriage law violates the California Constitution's equal protection clause.
A hearing on the merits of that case is Dec. 22 in San Francisco County Superior Court. The Alliance Defense Fund and California Attorney General Bill Lockyer are defending the law.
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Hit them where it hurts.
Won't happen. Liberals think they don't have to pay the consequences of their own recklessness.
Pretty sure they'd just enjoy that, and ask for more.
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