Plaintiff fails to have judge overturn Wisconsin marriage ban
“(The judge) missed the big picture…. It became an argument on narrow points of the law and not on the voters’ ability to function, and I think that was a mistake.”
William McConkey, a plaintiff who argued that the ballot question which added a gay marriage ban to the Wisconsin constitution had not been constructed legally because it covered more than one purpose — to restrict marriage to man-woman, and then to remove the ability of unmarried individuals to access the same rights. Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess ruled that the two were clearly related. (The Capital Times)
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