Prop 8 Supporters Ask Federal Judge To End 18,000 Marriages

Wow. The uber heterosexual supremacist Charles Cooper, the attorney for the defendants in the federal Proposition 8 trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger, has taken one more egregious shot at LGBT people: he asked the federal judge to not only uphold the state constitutional ban on marriage equality but apply it retroactively to strip state recognition of the estimate 18,000 same-sex couples who got married between June 15, 2008 and November 5, 2008.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

As the trial over California's prohibition on same-sex marriage enters its final stage today, the ban's sponsors are urging the judge to go a step further and revoke state recognition of the marriages of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before voters passed Proposition 8.

Such an order would honor "the expressed will of the people," backers of the November 2008 ballot measure said Tuesday in their final written filing before Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker.

Andrew Pugno, an attorney for Prop. 8's backers, said in an interview that the sponsors aren't asking Walker to nullify the 18,000 marriages, but only to rule that government agencies, courts and businesses no longer have to recognize the couples as married.

So, they are basically asking the courts to divorce me and my husband in the eyes of the state of California. That's pretty deep.

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