Cherokee Nation Panel: Marriage Means Man, Woman
/About a month after a lesbian couple successfully
filed for a tribal marriage application, the Cherokee National Tribal
Council voted to clearly define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Principal Chief Chad Smith has indicated he will sign the measure,
which was approved by the council Monday night. The change to tribal
marriage law would not affect Kathy Reynolds and Dawn McKinley, who
were married last month in a Cherokee ceremony. Cherokee Nation laws
are not retroactive. A Cherokee Nation District Court has scheduled a
hearing Friday to discuss a legal protest of McKinley's and Reynolds'
marriage application. The outcome of that hearing will determine
whether their union is leg. [more 
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