Thursday, June 5, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, June 5, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.cum 7 Gay mamage remams in limbo ACLU sues state to co"p' of recognition after it issues a valid marriage license." have 300 same-sex Kaplan, as well as five other ACLU attorneys and two ACLU marriages reCogniZed cooperating attorneys, are representing the same-sex ByALLANAAKHTAR couples in the case. IuyNewsEditor In January 2012, Hazel Park residentsApril DeBoer and Jayne Lawyers, advocates and Rowse sued the state of Michigan legislatures continue to fight for for denying them the right to marriage equality months after jointly adopt their children U.S. District Judge Bernard because the couple could not Friedman struck down the state's legally marry. Though the case ban on same-sex marriage. began as a matter of changing Last Thursday, the Michigan the state adoption policies, the chapter of the American Civil lawsuit evolved into a question Liberties Union filed a request to of whether or not same-sex force the state to recognize over marriage is legal in Michigan. 300 marriages preformed before Judge Friedman struck down the stay ordered by Michigan the Michigan Marriage Act Attorney General Bill Schuette this March, voted for by a 58 (R) on Judge Friedman's ruling. percent majority through a ballot In their brief for the case, initiative. Friedman declared Caspar v. Snyder, the ACLU said the ban on same-sex marriage they are defending the same-sex unconstitutional. couples that married in the time "In attempting to define this between the ruling and the stay, case as a challenge to 'the will asking Michigan to recognize of the people,'...state defendants their marriages as legal. lost sight of what this case is "At the heart of this case is the truly about: people," he wrote in fundamental right of lawfully his 31-page ruling. married couples to enjoy the After Schuette requested a benefits of marriage," said Jay stay on the ruling, the U.S. 6th Kaplan, staff attorney for the Circuit Court of Appeals granted ACLU of Michigan's LGBT the stay by a 2-1 majority on Project, in a press release. "The March 24,2014. state cannot strip a married Though the federal government announced it would recognize the hundreds of marriages made between the time of Friedman's ruling and the stay, the state government did not. Law Prof. Julian Mortenson, who is currently working with the ACLU as a cooperating attorney in Casper v. Snyder, said when these marriages occurred, it was unequivocally legal for the couples to wed. Therefore, no matter what happens after they occurred, the state does not have the constitutional authority to take away these couples' marriages. Though it is difficult to find constitutionality with same- sex marriage bans, the future of same-sex marriage in Michigan and in the nation is still uncertain. However, Mortenson said he firmly believes in the legality of the ACLU's argument in Caspar v. Snyder, saying the law does not allow anyone to take away the rights of people who married validly. "We believe, quite strongly, thatbanson marriage equalityare unconstitutional and specifically, regardless of whether they are unconstitutional, once valid marriage have been entered into, they can't be taken away," Mortenson said. 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