Kentucky attorneys pledge to fight ruling against same-sex marriage 'all the way' [View all]

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The Lexington Herald Leader
Kentucky attorneys pledge to fight ruling against same-sex marriage 'all the way'
By John Cheves
November 6, 2014

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld Kentucky's ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional, reversing a district judge's rulings from earlier this year and likely clearing a path to the U.S. Supreme Court for gay marriage advocates.

"This is not the end of the road for us. We're going to fight all the way," said Laura Landenwich, a Louisville attorney who represents eight same-sex couples suing the state of Kentucky. "I hate to keep quoting Martin Luther King all the time, but as he said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Four other appellate courts around the country recently have declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. But in a 2-to-1 ruling, a panel of judges on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati went the other way, siding with Gov. Steve Beshear and his counterparts in Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan, the states comprising the circuit.

The judges said it would be wiser for gays and lesbians to wait until voters in their states approve same-sex marriage through the legislative process, rather than forcing "a fundamental change" by suing....

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