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Atlanta – A judge has struck down Georgia’s ban on same-sex marriages, saying a measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2004 violated a provision of the state constitution that limits ballot questions to a single subject.
The ruling by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell had been eagerly awaited by gay-rights supporters who filed the court challenge in November 2004, soon after the constitutional ban was approved.
Russell said “procedural safeguards such as the single-subject rule rarely enjoy public support. … But ultimately it is those safeguards that preserve our liberties, because they ensure that the actions of government are constrained by the rule of law,” the judge wrote.
