SUIT FILED TO NULLIFY KY SSM BAN: From the Associated Press

A court challenge seeks to nullify the approval of a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages and civil-unions by Kentucky voters this month.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Frankfort, claims the measure that passed by a 3-to-1 margin was flawed because it dealt with two separate issues--the first part pertained to marriage, the rest civil unions. ...

Kent Ostrander, executive director of The Family Foundation, a socially conservative group based in Lexington that pushed for the gay-marriage ban, said he wasn't surprised by the suit.

He said the plaintiffs' complaints were off the mark.

"I differ with their perspective in that the amendment was simply about protecting the definition of marriage, barring any counterfeit of marriage," he said Wednesday. ...

The lawsuit claimed the Kentucky amendment was "fatally flawed" because the language adopted by the General Assembly and placed on the ballot was misleading and offered "only a vague definition of marriage."

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