Minnesota says NO to gay marriage
Image via Wikipedia A state district judge has rejected a bid by homosexual activists to overturn the state’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), saying that she could not ignore “binding precedent” defending the institution of marriage in Minnesota. District Judge Mary Dufresne of Hennepin County ruled Monday that a 1971 state Supreme Court precedent protected the state’s DOMA as constitutional, according to Minnesota’s Star-Tribune . That decision, Baker vs. Nelson, had found that the law does not violate the rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution . Unless and until the Minnesota Supreme Court reverses its ruling, Dufresne concluded, “ Same-sex marriage will not exist in this state.” Three couples sued Hennepin County Registrar Jill Alverson and the State of Minnesota in May 2010 after they were refused marriage licenses. The leader of the lawsuit is Doug Benson , executive director of Marry Me Minnesota, an organization that seeks to sue the state into legalizing same-