Lawsuit Underway As Man Goes After State To Fully Recognize His “Marriage”

Lawsuit Underway As Man Goes After State To Fully Recognize His “Marriage”

Chris Sevier is currently suing the state of Utah to get them to recognize his marriage with his laptop (pictured above).

A man recently “married” his laptop in New Mexico. Now, he’s suing a baker in Colorado for a cake and the state of Utah for recognition. Apparently, he’s doing so to protest same-sex marriage.

Earlier this year, Chris Sevier reportedly married his laptop during a wedding ceremony in New Mexico. However, when he tried getting a marriage license in Utah, his application was denied. After being told that he would not be given a marriage license, he filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah, accusing them of discrimination.

Chris Sevier, a well-known opponent of same-sex marriages.

In documents provided to the court, Sevier provided additional details. “I approached the Utah clerk to have a marriage license issued for me and my machine-spouse,” he explained. “The clerk denied my request for a marriage license,” continued Sevier, noting, “my object of affection was outside the scope of the narrow definition.” Sevier claims that by rejecting his marriage license, the state of Utah is discriminating against him by giving preference to some types of marriages over others.

Through his lawsuit, Sevier hopes to point out the problems with legalizing same-sex marriage. According to him, the same reasoning used to justify same-sex marriages could be used to justify marriages between people and machines. “If gays have the right to ‘marry their object of sexual desire, even if they lack corresponding sexual parts,’ then I should have the right to marry my preferred sexual object,” argued Sevier.

“The true question presented here is whether traditional marriage is a relationship that is stand alone and unequal to all other forms of sexual and spiritual unions,” he continued, adding, “the Constitutionality of the law in dispute narrowly defines marriage between one man and one woman, not one man and one man, one woman and one woman, one man and one machine, one man and one animal.”

Unsurprisingly, David Wolf, the Assistant Attorney General in Utah, is pushing to have Sevier’s lawsuit dismissed. He understands that Sevier isn’t really trying to marry his computer, but rather, overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. “Plaintiffs’ real objective…is not to obtain marriage licenses for unions they themselves see as unlawful and unconscionable, but rather a desire to restrict homosexuals’ right to marriage,” reasoned Wolf.

He also argued that certain types of marriage aren’t protected by the Constitution. “Simply put, marrying a laptop computer or multiple partners are not rights protected by the Constitution,” claimed Wolf. He also claimed that Sevier wasn’t in a position to sue the state. “These claims are untenable as a matter of law because Plaintiffs lack standing to bring these claims and the right to marry has not been indefinitely expanded, nor should it be.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Evelyn Furse, the judge in charge of the case, agreed with Wolf that Sevier’s argument was seriously flawed. “Mr. Sevier’s forty seven-page Proposed Amended Complaint contains extraneous and inflammatory statements that make understanding the nature of the claims difficult,” wrote Judge Furse in her decision, adding, “Mr. Sevier appears to lack standing to bring such a declaratory action. As the State Defendants explained in their Motion to Dismiss, to have standing a plaintiff must allege an injury-in-fact, traceable to the defendant’s’ action, redressable by a favorable decision in the case.”

However, since there were several legitimate complaints being made by Sevier, such as the state of Utah refusing to recognize a marriage from New Mexico, Judge Furse decided to allow Sevier’s case to move forward, but not before he revised his complaint.

Sevier has also filed a lawsuit against Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Christian bakery in Colorado, demanding that they bake him a cake for him and his mechanical spouse. “If marriage based on self-asserted sex-based identity narratives is a ‘fundamental right,’ ‘individual right,’ ‘existing right,’ based on a ‘personal choice’ for homosexuals, then clearly it is also a ‘fundamental right,’ ‘individual right,’ ‘existing right,’ based on a ‘personal choice’ for polygamists, zoophiles and machinists,” Sevier argued in his lawsuit.

“While it is undisputed that self-identified gays, polygamists, zoophiles and machinists can have wedding ceremonies, the states’ selective legal recognition of gay marriage violates the establishment clause insurmountably,” he added.

Sevier’s challenge to same-sex marriage is definitely a unique one. It shows that the reasons used to support same-sex marriage aren’t much different than the reasons someone could use to support a marriage between a man and a machine. Hopefully, his lawsuit helps convince the court to revise their definition of marriage.

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