Colorado gay rights group honors Boulder Clerk Hall, other allies, celebrates gains
A shout out for Hillary Hall and all the allies who have taken a stand to advance LGBT rights! 
The Colorado Independent
Colorado gay rights group honors Boulder Clerk Hall, other allies, celebrates gains
John Tomasic
August 19, 2014
BOULDER County Clerk Hillary Hall on June 25 began marrying same-sex couples. It was simple, really, is how she makes it seem. She did it because she felt morally and legally obligated after the federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Colorado, ruled that Utah’s gay marriage ban unconstitutionally tramples fundamental rights.
Hall said that, even though Colorado’s marriage ban still stands and even though the ruling against Utah’s ban was stayed, she just wouldn’t have any part anymore in denying individuals their fundamental rights. So she married 202 couples over the course of a month, even as Republican Attorney General John Suthers tried to stop her by targeting her with legal actions in what seemed like as many courts as he could think to involve — a district court, an appeals court, the state supreme court. Hall won four court battles against Suthers and lost the fifth.
On July 29, Suthers succeeded in halting the Hillary Hall Love and Justice Train in Boulder, when the state’s high court issued an order enjoining her to stop marrying gay couples and Hall decided to comply with the order.
“Given the avalanche of recent cases determining that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, I am hopeful the stay will be short-lived and that we will be able to resume issuing licenses soon,” she said....
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