Kansas attorney general moves to block licenses for same-sex marriages
Source: Reuters
Kansas attorney general moves to block licenses for same-sex marriages
Reuters
10 Oct 2014
The Kansas attorney general on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to block same-sex marriage licenses, filing the petition hours after two women were married outside a county courthouse.
Two women were married shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Friday outside the Johnson County courthouse, District Court Clerk Sandy McCurdy said. Within hours, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt asked the state Supreme Court to nullify the Johnson County order to issue licenses and order that no others be issued.
McCurdy did not release the names of the couple, believed to be the first same-sex couple married in Kansas. But she said the pair was the only same-sex couple to apply for a license on Tuesday and so married on Friday following the three-day waiting period in Kansas law.
Fifty-two same-sex couples had sought marriage licenses as of Friday afternoon in Johnson County, McCurdy said.
On Wednesday, a judge in Johnson County, which borders Kansas City and is the states most populous county, ordered court clerks to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Kansas bans same-sex marriage by state law and its state constitution, a position expected to be overturned following a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Monday.
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