Today, Liberty Counsel filed a petition requesting the California Supreme Court to stay and to reconsider its decision that sanctioned same-sex marriage. Liberty Counsel represents the Campaign for California Families.

Liberty Counsel's petition requests that the Court stay its opinion pending the upcoming vote in November on the California Marriage Protection Act ("Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California"). This ballot initiative will amend the state constitution and thus overrule the Court’s decision.

Liberty Counsel's Petition also requests that the Court rehear the case because of unforeseen and unintended consequences of the decision. If the Court's ruling goes into effect without modification, individuals could create polygamous and polyamorous relationships.

Liberty Counsel has included a chart explaining this problem in the Petition. For example, Parties A and B, C and D, and E and F, who are in a Vermont (or New Jersey and Connecticut) civil union, could all become interconnected when Parties A and C obtain a California same-sex marriage. At the same time B and F and D and E could get married, all at the same time. These polygamous and polyamorous relationships are made possible by this Court’s decision, which opens up marriage to same-sex couples while retaining the state's Domestic Partnership law that provides the same rights and benefits as provided to spouses in marriage.

The California Supreme Court has unwittingly created a system that hopelessly entangles property, custody, visitation and other rights. If not stopped, this fiasco will travel like a tsunami, wreaking havoc on couples in California and other states.

Liberty Counsel's chart shows how polygamy and polyamory (group marriage) can be recognized in California because of the California same-sex marriage ruling. 

This case underscores the need for a Federal Marriage Amendment!

Same-Sex Marriage: Putting Every Household at Risk

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