MARRIAGE AMENDMENT INTRODUCED IN US HOUSE: From the Sacramento Bee

Rep. Dan Lungren on Thursday introduced a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in a move that irritated gay activists but didn't soothe marriage protectionists, either.

The action by the Gold River Republican and former state attorney general comes just three days after a San Francisco judge ruled that state laws banning gay marriage violate the California Constitution.

Lungren's measure flatly declares that marriage "is a legal union of one man and one woman," and it removes the authority of all state and federal courts from saying otherwise. ...

It would leave states open to establishing laws that Lungren described as "something short of marriage" to protect the civil interests of gay couples but limit the effects of such laws to the states that enact them. ...

A constitutional provision limiting marriage to unions between a man and a woman is pending in the Senate, but Lungren's is the first in the House. It also goes further than the Senate bill by barring courts from any further consideration of the issue.
Lungren is a member of the House Judiciary Committee to which his legislation will be referred.

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