A lawyer for Basic Rights Oregon argued that the measure made separate amendments to the State Constitution, each of which should have been voted on separately. The lawyer, Mark Johnson, also told the judge that Measure 36 violated local governments' home rule rights. Charles Fletcher, an assistant attorney general, said voters had only clarified the marriage law and did not change it. ''There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriage after Measure 36,'' Mr. Fletcher told Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond of Marion County.
