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KMBC.com
Lawmaker: Judge
Shouldn't Annul
Same-Sex Union
By AP from the Web,
April 4, 2008
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Apr. 3 -- A
state lawmaker said a Missouri judge should not grant an annulment to a lesbian
married in Massachusetts.
Republican State Sen. Delbert Scott of Lowry City said the couple violated a
Massachusetts residency requirement when they moved to Missouri. In 2003,
Missouri lawmakers overwhelmingly passed Scott's bill limiting marriage to be
only between a man and a woman.
Scott filed a brief Tuesday asking Buchanan County Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg
to drop the case as an "unrecognized marriage." The brief said state law
bars judges from recognizing same-sex marriage for any purpose.
The legal squabble stems from a request late last year by Charisse Sparks to
annul her 2005 marriage to Janet Peters Mauceri Sparks.
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