Gay marriage opponents file legal request to delay unions until November election

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(05-22) 16:47 PDT San Francisco - --

Groups that fought San Francisco's lawsuit seeking matrimony for same-sex couples have got asked the Golden State Supreme Court to detain its determination to let the marriages.

The organizations, including the Proposition 22 Legal Defense Fund and the Alliance Defense Fund, filed a petition with the tribunal Thursday afternoon seeking the hold until after the November election. That's when the state's electors will likely make up one's mind a projected constitutional amendment to restrict matrimony to opposite-sex couples.

"Permitting this determination to take consequence immediately - in the visible light of the realistic possibility that the people of Golden State might amend their fundamental law to reaffirm matrimony as the labor union of one adult male and one adult female - hazards legal mayhem and uncertainness of immeasurable magnitude," the filing states.

A spokesman for San Francisco City Lawyer Dennis Herrera said they would struggle any hold in issuing the matrimony certifications to cheery couples. Lawyers for the metropolis are expected to register a legal response as early as Friday.

Many county clerks believe the cheery labor unions could get as early as June 16. And although the projected gay-marriage prohibition have got not functionaries been set on the November ballot yet, protagonists have obtained the necessary signatures.

It is ill-defined what would go on to cheery couples who get married between June and November if the enterprise passes.

"It is to no one's benefit to redefine matrimony for four or five months," said Saint Andrew Pugno, legal advocate for the Proposition 22 Legal Defense Fund.

Also Thursday, state Sen. Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, announced she had received an unwritten sentiment from the Golden State Legislative Council, the lawyer for the state Legislature, stating that same-sex couples make not necessitate to resolve their domestic partnerships in order to marry.

Read the petition for a hold at .

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