Pennsylvania's Attorney General Refuses to Defend State's Gay Marriage Ban

Christian Post ^ | 07/11/2013 | Katherine Weber

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Enough states have now banned gay marriage to implement a constitutional amendment: 1. 86% of Mississippi voters amend state constitution in 2001 2. 76% of Texas voters pass Proposition 2 3. 61% of North Carolina voters BAN gay marriage with Proposition 1 on May 7, 2012 4. 71.6% of Kentucky voters amend state constitution 5. 70% of Nebraska voters amend state constitution with Initiative 416 6. 69.4% of Nevada voters amend state constitution 7. 68% of Alaska�s voters amend state constitution 8. 66% of Hawaii legislators amend state constitution, 69% of voters endorsed that amendment 9. 61.4% of California voters pass Proposition 22 on March 7, 2000, then again 53% pass Proposition 8 in November 2009 10. 57% of Oregon voters reject the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and amend their state constitution 11. 53.4% of Colorado Voters amend state constitution on November 3, 1993 12. Oklahoman voters made it a crime for a public official to issue gay marriage licenses 13. FEDERAL DOMA law passed on September 21, 1996 ends gay marriage 14. �Voters in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah all approved anti-same-sex marriage amendments by double-digit margins�, per CNN

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Wow, personally I am glad for her stance, this means someone that believes in the law can be appointed to defend it.

Per the article: Pennsylvania law states that the attorney general may pass her responsibility to defend the constitutionality of state laws to the governor's office or executive branches, should it serve in the best interest of the state.

Be glad she passed on it rather than saying she would defend it in a totally incompetent way.

[lightman]

Corbett's office has yet to comment on Kane's announcement, but the governor has previously expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage...he said this afternoon that he was dismayed that she was failing to perform her official duties of defending a law which the legislature had passed, but that his legal team would take up the defense AG......

I'm not surprised in the least..

Governor Corbett's parish Priest is a personal frined.

Father tells me that when the Governor is home he rarely misses daily Mass.

[fatima]

Bump.

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Be glad she passed on it rather than saying she would defend it in a totally incompetent way.

I have to agree with you. I can't imagine Obama "defending" DOMA in federal court. He would have gotten Section 2 and 3 both thrown out by "defending" the law.

But why would this AG pass the opportunity to pretend to defend, then sabotage the defense, a law she doesn't like? Unless she is afraid of the Gaystapo.