WHO: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks
WHAT: Answering questions from the media following hearing in
Chambers v. OrmistonWHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 9, following hearing, which begins at 9:30 a.m. EST
WHERE: Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 250 Benefit Street, Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks will be available to answer questions from the media Tuesday following a hearing at the Supreme Court of Rhode Island on a same-sex couple demanding to “divorce” in the state, where same-sex “marriage” is not recognized.
“Marriage has always been a union between one man and one woman in Rhode Island. Everything else is counterfeit,” said Nimocks. “If the Supreme Court of Rhode Island grants a so-called ‘divorce’ to these two women, the ruling would radically redefine marriage in Rhode Island without legislative or voter input. Rhode Island’s public policy on marriage is clear and same-sex ‘marriage’ isn’t a part of it.”
The two women in the case, Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston, both residents of Rhode Island, traveled across the state to Massachusetts and obtained a “marriage” license there in May 2004. The couple subsequently insisted on petitioning the Rhode Island courts for a “divorce.”
ADF attorneys filed three friend-of-the-court briefs at Rhode Island’s high court in August arguing that a divorce can be granted only to married couples and not to couples in other relationship contracts (
www.telladf.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4197). A copy of a fact sheet on the case can be read at
www.telladf.org/UserDocs/ChambersFACTSHEET.pdf.
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