Yahoo! News - Suit challenges Mich. gay marriage ban
Finally some action...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage, in reaction to the state attorney general's legal interpretation that the law prevents state and local governments from providing benefits to employees' same-sex partners.

"We are filing this lawsuit today on behalf of the many men and women in Michigan with children who very much need health care but who stand to lose their benefits because supporters of Proposal 2 are pushing to make LGBT families into second-class citizens," said Kary Moss, ACLU of Michigan's executive director.

The ACLU filed suit Monday in Ingham County Circuit Court, in Lansing, the state capital. It asks the court to rule that Proposal 2 does not prohibit domestic partnership benefits offered by public employers.

"Compensating employees with health care coverage does not constitute recognition of a marriage," said Joe Darby, a member of National Pride at Work, a gay rights labor group. "What it does do is provide equal employment opportunities to lesbians and gay men."

Throughout the campaign to pass Proposal 2, Citizens for Protection of Marriage, the organization behind the constitutional amendment, promised the public that the purpose of the proposed amendment was to limit marriage to a man and a woman and would not affect domestic partner benefits, according to the ACLU.

Glad to hear I was remembering correctly.