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Federal Judge Strikes down PA’s Ban on Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

PHILADELPHIA–(ENEWSPF)–May 20, 2014.  A federal judge struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples today on the grounds it unconstitutionally discriminates against lesbians and gay men. His order directs the commonwealth to allow same-sex couples to marry and to recognize valid out-of-state marriages.

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The ruling came in Whitewood v. Wolf, a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, volunteer counsel from the law firm of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin…

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