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So damned generous of you Bumby... I mean Bobby
New Orleans is finally allowed to join the rest of Louisiana and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Following a court ruling ordering it to do so, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration agreed Thursday (July 2) afternoon to allow the state Department of Vital Records in downtown New Orleans to issue the marriage licenses. Every other marriage license office in the state began doing so earlier this week.
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Orleans Parish is the only place where a state agency -- not a court clerk -- is in charge of authorizing marriage documents. So, unlike elsewhere in the state, Jindal had more control in Orleans over the issuing of marriage licenses. Same-sex couples who wanted to be married in Orleans were having to travel to the 2nd City Court in Algiers for a license this week.
The administration was forced to relent following Thursday's U.S. District Court ruling that struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban. The district court was responding to the decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court last week to recognize same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
link:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/bobby_jindal_administration_wi.html
Jindal is such a hateful prick.
His spokesman was really quick to pass off all questions to state agencies and county governments, rather than directly address the defeat
shenmue
(38,506 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)abakan
(1,819 posts)I wonder how he has been elected to anything, much less, Governor of a state, in the United States.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Their order to the district court included this line. I somehow doubt it was aimed at the federal district court judge.
They also said this:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2157162/smith-louisiana.pdf
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Hey Jindal, stop this nonsense NOW.