Anti-gay deputy court clerks in St Mary’s County, Md., will stop performing marriages when same-sex marriage becomes legal in the state next week. Pink News reported that Joan Williams, clerk of the St Mary’s Circuit Court, told the Washington Examiner that some of her employees are opposed to equal marriage for religious reasons. As a result…
Edith “Edie” Windsor filed a petition in New York state Monday against the Defense of Marriage Act, a law was recently found unconstitutional in California and Massachusetts. The 83-year-old lesbian asked the state’s Supreme Court to review her case “thus bypassing a second round in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals,” the Huffington Post is…
Same-sex couples who wish to marry in California will have to wait a while longer for their constitutional rights following a reconsideration filed by Prop 8 backers Tuesday. Supporters of the anti-equality measure have slowed its path to the U.S. Supreme Court by asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its Feb. 7 ruling in favor…
In wake of Tuesday’s ruling that deemed Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, legal experts have suggested that the ruling is so narrowly written that it may not continue to the U.S. Supreme Court if further appealed by anti-gay groups. The suggestion comes amid the ruling’s language which was written specifically to limit its scope to the…
