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"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

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“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Friday, October 10, 2014

And To Finish Off the Week, Two More

Sort of. The Supreme Court has lifted the stay on the Idaho decision, and a federal judge has found North Carolina's anti-marriage amendment unconstitutional, but only for two counties:

U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., issued his two orders shortly after 5 p.m.
read the order

“Defendants are PERMANENTLY ENJOINED from enforcing such laws to the extent these laws prohibit a person from marrying another person of the same gender, prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages lawfully solemnized in other States, Territories, or a District of the United States, or seek to punish in any way clergy or other officiants who solemnize the union of same-sex couples,” Cogburn wrote.

In a separate case, Judge William Osteen has denied requests by the legislature and NOM to intervene, but will not issue a decision until next week.

That brings this week's tally to 9, and the total so far to, I think, 29, while in Kansas, the Attorney General is asking the state supreme courts to stop clerks from issuing licenses to same-sex couples.

Wow.

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