Thwarting marriage with intimidation?Stephen Stahl and Robert Seneca were merely thinking about contesting Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable , but even that was too much for a group of state lawmakers. Stahl, 55, and Seneca, 48, applied for and were denied a marriage license at the Bucks County Courthouse in March. But before the New Hope couple could mount a legal challenge, 12 legislators, backed by tire Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund The Alliance Defense Fund ("ADF") is a conservative Christian non-profit organization with the stated goal of "defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. , on May 13 filed a complaint in county court to have Pennsylvania's Defense of Marriage Act declared constitutional. "If they're trying to intimidate us, they picked on the wrong queers," Stahl said. "To me, this is as insane as Nazism or McCarthyism." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS. (2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit. , the first-of-its-kind suit is meant to serve as a test case to stop challenges to same-sex marriage bans nationwide. But the suit probably won't go far, experts say, because it doesn't relate to any other dispute before the courts. |
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