TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 30 (UPI) -- Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and eight same-sex couples challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage and refusal to recognize out-of-state unions.
In April, the state ACLU filed a motion demanding that Florida recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, saying a 2008 amendment that bans the state doing so is unconstitutional, claiming it "violates the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."