California’s attorney general Kamala Harris requested today that a federal appeals court allow same-sex marriages to resume during the California Supreme Court’s consideration of legal questions surrounding the state’s ban on gay marriage.
In a letter to the 9th Ciruit Court of Appeals, Harris argued that a continued enforcement of Proposition 8 was in direct violation of same-sex couples’ civil rights. She cited the unlikelihood that Proposition 8 supporters would prevail in their efforts against the courts, as well as the Obama administrations’ recent refusal to further defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act in her request.
“The public interest weighs heavily against the government sanctioning such discrimination by permitting it to continue,” Harris wrote.
