Shupe-Roderick v. Freudenthal, No. 2:2010-cv-166-F (D. Wyo. August 13, 2010)
Excerpt from the complaint:
“More than thirty (30) years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States recognized that ‘marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival.’ But today, as a result of Wyoming State State § 20-1-101, et seq., the State of Wyoming denies its gay and lesbian residents access to marriage by providing in its state law that only a civil marriage ‘between a man and woman’ is ‘valid or recognized in Wyoming.’ Wyoming State Statute § 20-1-202. Furthermore, Wyoming does not even offer same-sex unions or domestic partnerships. This unequal treatment of gays and lesbians denies them the basic liberties and equal protection under the laws that are guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
