Montana's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Challenged

According to Lambda Legal, as of last week only 3 states which do not allow same-sex marriage had no litigation challenging the ban pending.  Now that has dropped to two.  The ACLU of Montana announced yesterday the filing of a lawsuit on behalf of four same-sex couples seeking to marry in Montana or to have their out-of-state same-sex marriage recognized in Montana. The complaint (full text) in Rolando v. Fox, (D MT, filed 5/21/2014), asks the court to declare that Montana's constitutional and statutory bans on same-sex marriage violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. With the filing of this lawsuit, only North and South Dakota have marriage equality bans with no litigation pending.