Pa. legislators sue Bucks gay couple

Associated Press


DOYLESTOWN - Legislators who sponsored the state's Defense of Marriage Act have filed a lawsuit against two gay men who sought a marriage license in Bucks County.

When Robert Seneca and Stephen Stahl tried to apply for a marriage license in March at the Bucks County Courthouse, Register of Wills Barbara G. Reilly said she couldn't legally accept an application for a same-sex union. Seneca and Stahl later said they would consider filing a lawsuit appealing her decision.

Leonard G. Brown III, an attorney for 11 Republicans and one Democrat who were sponsors of the state's 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, said they filed their suit in an attempt to have the law affirmed before Seneca and Stahl seek to have it declared unconstitutional.

Seneca and Stahl haven't yet filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the act, which says it is the state's policy "that marriage shall be between one man and one woman."

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"Sponsors of the Defense of Marriage Act listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit were Reps. Allan Egolf, (R., Perry); Gibson C. Armstrong, (R., Lancaster); Matthew E. Baker, (R., Tioga); Thomas C. Creighton, (R., Lancaster); Gordon Denlinger, (R., Lancaster); Stephen R. Maitland, (R., Adams); Daryl Metcalfe, (R., Butler); Merle H. Phillips, (R., Northumberland); Samuel R. Rohrer, (R., Berks); Jerry A. Stern, (R., Blair); Katie True, (R., Lancaster); and Thomas F. Yewcic, (D., Cambria)."

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