“Because Kansas’ constitution and statutes indeed do what Kitchen forbids, the Court concludes that Kansas’ same-sex marriage ban violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution,” Crabtree writes. “Accordingly, the Court grants plaintiffs’ request for preliminary relief and enters the injunction described at the end of this Order.”
A temporary stay was included as part of the decision, so same-sex couples won’t be able to wed in Kansas until 5 pm Central Time Nov. 11, unless the state informs the court sooner it won’t seek review before the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Two lesbian couples, one from Wichita and the other from Lecompton, brought the suit challenging the constitutionality of Kansas’ same-sex marriage ban.
