PALM BEACH, Fla., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The following press release is issued by DontAmend.com:

At 11:30 AM on Thursday, July 1, at the Palm Beach County Courthouse, (Main Entrance) on North Dixie Highway, attorney Ellis Rubin will file a lawsuit on behalf of Ruth Berman & Constance Kurtz, Sheldon Woller and Michael Nagle and five other long term lesbian and gay couples, to challenge the Florida Statute that prohibits marriage between same sex partners and that defines marriage as a union only between a male and a female.

Ruth & Connie, now residents of West Palm Beach, were the subject of the award winning Documentary, Ruthie & Connie, Every Room in The House, shown around the World and on HBO/Cinemax. These two Jewish women from a tightly knit Brooklyn Neighborhood became pioneers, when they left their husbands and children and announced they were in love. In 1994 Ruth and Connie, along with 2 other gay couples, successfully sued the New York City Board of Education and won domestic-partner medical and dental benefits for gay and lesbian couples, not just in the schools, but for all New York City employees. Today, they are the Palm Beach co chairs of DontAmend.Com, the National grassroots organization to stop the Federal Marriage Amendment, and any other State constitutional amendment against same gender marriage.

They are suing, they say, because "We have a 29 year loving, caring, and responsible relationship and we are entitled to marriage, and receiving all of the benefits, protections, and responsibilities, afforded every heterosexual married couple in Florida, and the USA."

Robin Tyler, the Executive Director of The Equality Campaign -- http://www.dontamend.com, says "The best defense, is a good offense, and we will encourage lawsuits to flood the courts. We are very grateful, that a nationally famous attorney, Ellis Rubin, would be willing to take these cases in Florida, and that his law firm is doing them pro-bono."

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