PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's elected attorney general said Thursday that she will not defend a 17-year-old state law effectively banning same-sex marriage from a legal challenge in federal court, meaning the task will be left up to Gov. Tom Corbett. In a brief statement to reporters and a small crowd of supporters at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Kane said she cannot ethically defend the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's marriage law, and that she believes it to be unconstitutional. "Today, the attorney general chooses to protect all those without high-priced lawyers, all those who suffer discrimination and inequality, those thousands of families who have been...
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