BOSTON (AP) — Conservative groups pleaded with a federal judge Wednesday in an 11th-hour bid to stop the nation's first state-sanctioned gay marriages from taking place next week in Massachusetts.
Mathew Staver, president and general counsel of the Florida-based Liberty Counsel, argued the state's high court stepped outside its jurisdiction when it ruled in November that gay marriage should be legal in Massachusetts.
"It's an unusual time that we live in, and we're asking this court to intervene to prevent this constitutional train wreck," Staver told U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro.
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The judge said he would issue a decision Thursday afternoon or Friday morning. Both sides said they will take their case to a federal appeals if necessary.