On Tuesday a national group who has opposed the legalization of same-sex marriages in Oregon has filed a bid for the US Supreme Court to decide on the matter. The filing, which was submitted by the National Organization for Marriage to Justice Anthony Kennedy, is requesting the judge to intervene and stop the trial court ruling that favored for same-sex marriage to be implemented in the state while it has been appealing for its case. Buzzfeed noted that the NOM's request to stop the implementation of the trial court ruling has been denied.
US District Court Judge Michael McShane and from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has since rejected NOM's requests for a stay in the court ruling, which has allowed same-sex couples to marry in Oregon since May 19.
In the request to the Supreme Court, the lawyers for NOM argued that the decision of the trial court that struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage needs to be challenged considering that the defendants named in the trial court case had not offered a defense, nor expressed their intention to appeal an adverse judgement. "[T]his case involves not just a refusal by the federal government to accept a State's definition of marriage, but an outright abrogation of such a definition-by a single federal judge wielding a federal injunction in a non-adversarial proceeding."
Interestingly, NOM has addressed the petition to Kennedy, who has written three of the high court's opinions that advances gay rights beginning 1996, Buzzfeed said.
The viral news site that although the NOM petition has been dropped off at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the application was only filed and docketed the morning of the following day. According to a court spokesman, Kennedy has already called for a response regarding the Oregon case. The spokesman added that the response will be due by 1PM on Monday, June 2.
