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Tennessee attorney general fights to keep heterosexual marriage

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The Tennessee attorney general is fighting to keep marriage in the Volunteer State between “one man and one woman.”

Three gay couples here and those in three other states petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case and reverse a November appeals court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gay marriage.

The attorney general responded to that petition on Monday, asking the nation’s highest court not to accept the case.

View more at our news partner’s website, tennessean.com.