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Wyoming gay couple challenges state marriage law

Posted: Aug 24, 2010 10:46 AM
Updated: Aug 24, 2010 10:48 AM

CHEYENNE, WY - A gay couple in Cheyenne has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman.

David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree filed the lawsuit this month. The men are acting as their own attorneys in the case, which is assigned to U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson of Cheyenne.

Shupe-Roderick and Dupree say the Laramie County Clerk's Office has refused to issue them a marriage license. They're asking Johnson to block the state from enforcing any laws that block gays and lesbians from access to civil marriage.

Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg said Tuesday he hadn't reviewed the lawsuit and declined comment on it.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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