Group Wants Justices To Step Down From Hearing Marriage Amendment Challenge
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A group defending a ballot item that would
ban gay marriage want two state Supreme Court justices to step down
from hearing a challenge to the proposal.
The Arkansas Marriage Amendment Committee wants Governor
Huckabee to appoint two replacement justices for the case. Huckabee
supports a ban on gay marriage.
The group filed motions Tuesday asking Justices Robert L. Brown
and Annabelle Clinton Imber to recuse themselves from hearing a
lawsuit seeking to prohibit the recognition of legal unions among
homosexuals.
The motions said Brown should step aside because he wrote an
article praising a 2002 court opinion that decriminalized sodomy.
They said Brown was supporting a purely policy-driven decision in
support of gay rights.
The motions also asked Imber to recuse herself because she once
worked at the same law firm as a heterosexual man who has joined
the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the ballot initiative. Imber
pointed out the connection on her own and said there was no
conflict in it.
