New Orleans same-sex couple sues for marriage license

Kristoffer Bonilla and John Thomas Wray argue in a lawsuit that the state has "permanently deprived them of the ability to sanctify their committed relationship and to exercise all of the rights and benefits attendant to marriage." The couple was turned away by officials at the Orleans Parish marriage license office on April 2 solely because both were men, the lawsuit says. "We just want a marri...

New Orleans Times-Picayune • Jul 1, 2009