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One of the next episodes in this USSC-foisted myth of "separate but equal" .

Washington Post
Juliet Eilperin
July 9, 2013

Gay couples to sue for the right to marry in Pennsylvania

The ACLU is representing 23 plaintiffs –10 gay couples, two children of one of the couples,
and the surviving widow of a same-sex couple that was together for 29 years
— in a lawsuit it will file Tuesday in Harrisburg, Pa.
James Esseks, who directs the*ACLU’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project,
said the group hopes to secure the right for gay couples to marry in Pennsylvania,
force the state to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere
and ratchet up the legal pressure on the Supreme Court to ultimately rule
on the question of whether same-sex marriage should be legal across the nation.<snip>

“The issue is getting back to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Esseks said,
noting that there are more than half-a-dozen other legal challenges to
same-sex marriage bans already pending in federal court.

“Pennsylvania recognizes straight people’s marriages from Maine and New York,
but it doesn’t recognize gay people’s marriages from Maine and New York. The question is, why?”

But this flurry of lawsuits is also aimed at winning over the American public to the idea
of expanding gay marriage nationwide, by highlighting the stories of
committed same-sex couples who are not recognized by the state.

Helena Miller and Dara Raspberry met in Brooklyn in 2006 and got
legally married in Connecticut in 2010, because at the time New York
did not allow same-sex marriage. They moved to Philadelphia in the fall of 2011,
in part to be closer to Miller’s family as they prepared to have children of their own.

“We have a wonderful family and we get wonderful support
from our family and friends,” Miller said in an interview.
“Unfortunately by moving to Pennsylvania, we effectively became unmarried.”
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