Supreme Court declines 'gay marriage' case; suit sought to overturn federal DOMA law
Oct 11, 2006
By Staff
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (BP)--The Supreme Court Oct. 10 declined to hear a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, letting stand a law that gives states the option of banning "gay marriage."

Without comment, the high court refused to take up the lawsuit, Smelt v. Orange County, filed by two California homosexual men who sought to overturn both the Defense of Marriage Act and California's laws banning "gay marriage." They lost last year at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before appealing to the Supreme Court.

It marked the first time the high court has been asked to consider the constitutionality of the law.
 

 
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