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Virginians voted more than six years ago to ban gay marriage across the state. But now
a Norfolk couple is not only taking the Commonwealth to court over it, they want the law thrown
out completely.
The same team of attorneys that led the challenge to California's Prop 8, announced today that
they are joining the lawsuit.
We are a married couple. And we would like to be recognized as a married couple. Today
in Norfolk Federal Court those lawyers filed several motions asking a judge to make a quick
ruling in their favor to avoid a jury trial and to actually make Virginia's constitutional
amendment immediately null and void.
Virginia's ban includes a denial of recognition of unions sanctioned in other states.
I don't want to go to Maryland and get married and then come home and not be married. I want
the real thing.
The spokesman for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said he would defend the amendment against
the legal challenge.