Prop. 8 backers ask court to hear marriage cases

By Stacia Glenn on November 17, 2008 1:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

(AP) -- The sponsors of California's new same-sex marriage ban are urging the state's highest court to hear a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn the measure.

Lawyer Andrew Pugno says the backers of Proposition 8 are so confident the California Supreme Court would uphold the voter-approved initiative they would prefer the court take the cases and resolve the question quickly.

Supporters of gay marriage have filed four legal challenges to Proposition 8 arguing that voters did not have the authority to enact a ban on gay marriage. The measure rewrote the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman.

As of Monday, the Supreme Court hasn't decided whether it will take up the cases.