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:
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.
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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