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With the help of the ACLU, eight Florida couples have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force the state of Florida to recognize their marriages performed legally in other states.

One couple, from Fort Lauderdale have been together for over 50 years. They retired in south Florida and just want the peace of find offered to all married couples. They don’t want their sacred marriage vows promising to care for each other dependent on where they live.

The ACLU said it filed the case in U.S. District Court in the northern district of Florida against Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and appointed state officials. It asks a judge to declare Florida’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriages as unconstitutional.

“Each of these couples has their own story of how the state’s discriminatory refusal to recognize their marriages has impacted their lives,” Daniel Tilley, an ACLU attorney said in a statement. “These eight couples have all the rights and responsibilities of marriage in the states where they exchanged vows, and the federal government recognizes their marriages as well. It’s time for Florida to stop the harmful practice of treating committed couples as if they are strangers.”

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Carrie Stone