OREGON MARRIAGE AMENDMENT CHALLENGED: From the Associated Press

Basic Rights Oregon on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, arguing the ban revises the fundamental principles of the Oregon Constitution rather than merely amending it.

Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved the ban last November as the state joined 10 others to write a specific ban on gay marriage into state law during the national election. ...

The lawsuit also argues the ban should be overturned because it makes more than one change to the Oregon Constitution in violation of state law barring multiple changes to a law via a single initiative.

The complaint also argues the gay marriage ban is drafted as a statement of government policy rather than as a statement of law, as required for a constitutional amendment.

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