Wyoming couple drops gay marriage lawsuit
By
The Associated Press
09.16.2010 10:30am EDT
(Cheyenne, Wyo.) A gay couple in Cheyenne has dropped a federal lawsuit that challenged the Wyoming law defining marriage as existing only between a man and a woman.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports that David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree filed a notice Friday voluntarily dismissing their lawsuit against the state.
They say they are dismissing the suit because unspecified circumstances had changed.
The couple sued last month, alleging that Wyoming’s law defining marriage as being a contract solely “between a male and a female person” was unconstitutional.
Some gay-rights activists expressed concern about the lawsuit; others thought
it might be a con. The two men were representing themselves, even though they’re not lawyers.
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