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Comments from Florida’s Attorney General on same sex marriage have ticked off LGBT advocates. As Matt Galka tells us, the state says voters wanted it this way.

Florida’s Attorney General is fighting to dismiss a challenge to the state’s same sex marriage law. But the wording she used has rubbed Equality Florida the wrong way.

“It’s the wrong decision, the wrong thing to do,” said Jim VanRiper, a member of the group’s board.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose significant public harm.”

“She chose to take the political angle instead of the personal people angle. This has nothing to do with anybody except people in same sex marriages, and instead, she chose politics over people,” said VanRiper.

The Attorney General released a statement on the issue. Bondi reminded voters they passed a constitutional amendment to define marriage being between a man and a woman in 2008.

The Attorney General said she was “keeping her sworn duty to uphold the laws of the land” and “defending the wishes of the voters.”

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit in March.

19 states have legalized gay marriage. The state is digging in to try and stop Florida from becoming the 20^th.