State Attorney General Sam Olens is asking a federal judge to dismiss a suit that challenges Georgia’s constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage, saying that the challengers are asking the court to find “that the people of Georgia no longer have the right to decide for themselves whether to define marriage in the way every state in our Union has defined it as recently as 2003.”
In their first public comment about the nationally watched litigation, the state attorneys argued in a motion filed Monday afternoon that three same-sex couples and a widow whose partner died in March “may well be right that our nation is headed for a new national equilibrium on same-sex marriage.”
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