San Francisco, CA – Yesterday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer decided to permit all current parties to the coordinated marriage cases to participate in the briefing on the constitutionality of the marriage laws. Those cases currently include the two original actions brought in February against Mayor Newsom and the City of San Francisco, as well as three direct challenges by homosexual couples to the marriage laws. Expressing a desire to have a fully developed record, which includes the full range of arguments in support of and against the constitutionality of the marriage laws, he declined the invitation to preclude Campaign for California Families and the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund from participating in the cases. Campaign for California Families is represented by Mathew Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel, and Rena Lindevaldsen, Senior Litigation Counsel for Liberty Counsel.

Mathew Staver commented, “We are thrilled with the manner in which the Court is handling the coordinated cases. Judge Kramer recognizes the benefit of hearing all sides of the marriage debate, not just those arguments advanced by the same-sex couples and the Attorney General’s office. We welcome the opportunity to defend the constitutionality of California’s decision to promote marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”