All posts tagged "Marriage Licenses"

By Brendan O'Brien

By Brendan O'Brien

By Steve Barnes

A New Mexico judge ordered the county clerks in Bernalillo and Santa Fe Counties to begin issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples on Tuesday. According to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Judge Alan Malott of the Second Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico ruled that to deny same sex couples the right to marry violates the state constitution.

New Hope, PA Mayor Larry Keller (R) announced in a letter to the city council that he will not officiate the wedding of two men who were issued a marriage license by a county clerk who called Pennsylvania's anti-same sex marriage law "arbitrary and suspect." The New Hope Free Press reported that Keller is declining to perform same sex marriage on the grounds that he could expose the city to lawsuits, but Democratic officials say that the mayor is actually acting out of political cowardice.

Two lesbian couples on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Clerk of Bernalillo County in New Mexico for refusing to provide them with marriage licenses.