A white supremacist group has filed a
friend of the court brief in support of Michigan's ban on gay
marriage.
The day after U.S. District Judge
Bernard Friedman ruled the state's ban invalid, roughly 300 gay and
lesbian couples tied the knot in 4 Michigan counties before the Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati suspended Friedman's decision
as the state pursues an appeal.
(Related: Obama
admin says Michigan gay marriages will be recognized.)
The Traditionalist Youth Network filed
its brief last week, according
to Mlive.
“The totality of the history of the
Western and American traditions demonstrates quite clearly that
same-sex conduct can be penalized,” wrote lawyer Kyle Bristow.
“If a state cannot be permitted to
define marriage as simply as constituting one man and one woman, then
our culture will be taken down a very slippery slope that will see
pedophiles, polygamists, zoophiles, those in incestuous
relationships, and every other sexual deviant with proclivities now
known or to be invented to challenge laws that, likewise, prevent
them from marrying whom – what – they wish.”
Michigan Attorney General Bill
Schuette, a Republican who is defending the ban in court, denounced
the brief.
“The Sixth Circuit should use this
brief to line a birdcage, because that's all it's good for,”
Schuette told MLive.