The Attorney General and Same Sex Marriage

Release Date

06/04/2014

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By Matt Galka

Florida’s Attorney General is fighting to dismiss a challenge to the state’s same sex marriage law. But the wording she used has rubbed Equality Florida the wrong way.

“It’s the wrong decision, the wrong thing to do,” said Jim VanRiper, a member of the group’s board.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose significant public harm.”

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