Bid to overturn gay marriage ruling

The backers of California’s same-sex marriage ban petitioned a US federal appeals court to review a split decision by three of its judges that struck down the voter-approved law known as Proposition Eight.

Lawyers for the religious and legal groups that qualified the ban for the 2008 ballot had faced a deadline for asking the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the 2-1 decision made two weeks ago.