Challengers to the state’s ban on gay marriage argued to a Miami-Dade circuit judge on Wednesday afternoon that the issue is inexplicably tied to same-sex couples’ right to adopt and raise families, a right the courts granted in 2010.

“This is really what it comes down to,” said attorney Jeffrey Cohen, a partner at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt representing the challengers. “It’s about the right of a person to chose who to love.”

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