Georgia’s ban on same-sex marriage had been in effect for nearly two decades, and a constitutional amendment intended to bullet-proof the law was nearly a decade old when attorneys at Lambda Legal in Atlanta decided the time was finally right to attempt to strip the measures from the books.
Lambda Legal senior attorney Elizabeth Littrell told the Daily Report after the organization filed a federal class action suit last week on behalf of three same-sex couples and a lesbian widow that she and her colleagues had been fielding calls for years from same-sex couples seeking help across the state.
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