3 gay couples to ask for marriage licenses in SC

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Three same sex couples plan to go to the Greenville County courthouse this week to ask for marriage licenses.

Alyssa Weaver and Michel McIver, along with the other two couples, know their request will be denied. In 2006, 78 percent of voters in South Carolina supported a constitutional amendment not just banning gay marriage, but any other type of domestic union.

But Weaver said she wants to call attention to the fundamental unfairness of denying her the ability to marry the woman who in their three years together supported her through breast cancer and has helped her as she goes through nursing school.

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Weaver and McIver talk about their relationship: http://bit.ly/zezCjK