Equality for Gays Doesn’t Exist, Lawyer Says at Trial
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Legal equality doesn’t exist for Michigan’s gay and lesbian couples, a lawyer for two women challenging the law that keeps them from marrying told a judge in a trial held as such barriers were attacked in other states.
April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse sued the state seeking to overturn the prohibitions on their marriage and their ability to adopt each other’s children. Michigan’s bar is the product of a voter-approved 2004 amendment to the state constitution.