Gay Marriage Foes File Suit ; 7 City Residents Challenge '77 Human Rights Act

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Opponents of same-sex marriage in the District filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court Wednesday seeking to overturn the city election board's decision to reject their referendum proposal.

"This Court should uphold the people's right of referendum, and give the people the opportunity to protect its long-established understanding of marriage as being a legal union between a man and a woman rather than deferring to the laws of other jurisdictions regarding the definition of marriage," says the lawsuit, filed against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics by seven D.C. residents.

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Gay Marriage Foes File Suit ; 7 City Residents Challenge '77 Human Rights Act

The elections board rejected the referendum on the basis that it would have violated the 1977 D.C. Human Rights Act, which ba...

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