ACLU TELLS OKLA. COURT MARRIAGE AMENDMENT WOULD BE "SOCIAL ENGINEERING": From 365Gay.com

A proposed amendment to the Oklahoma constitution to prevent gay marriage is an attempt at "far-reaching social engineering," an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union charged Wednesday.

Lawyer Mark Henricksen told a state Supreme Court referee the court should remove the referendum on same-sex marriage from the Nov. 2 ballot because the language is "vague, ambiguous and flawed" and would discriminate against gays and lesbians. In addition, it could also be used to ban civil unions and other kinds of domestic partnerships.

The Oklahoma House voted 92-to-4 in April to ask voters to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. The referendum also seeks to prohibit the state from recognizing unions performed in other states. The ACLU challenged the initiative in a lawsuit it filed on Aug. 27 on behalf of 10 gay Oklahomans.

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