Judges push states, clerks on marriage

Department of Revenue Secretary Tim Barfield said his agency has been looking at how the same-sex marriage decision would impact tax issues since the USA Supreme Court decision came down last week. In the coming months, some may fight for a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.

“What it says is that families and businesses can not face discrimination by the state of Louisiana for believing that marriage is between a man and a woman”.

Welles and Beauregard could have gone to another parish earlier this week to get a marriage license, or to 2nd City Court in Algiers, but were willing to wait to get their license from the state.

“If Congress really wants to see all their emails, they need to ask those hackers working for the foreign governments”.

Though they’ve lost the fight against same-sex marriage, Republicans have proclaimed that the state’s next battlefront would be in defense of religious liberty. Strange, then, that some are still trying to keep courthouse doors closed to gay and lesbian couples: Officials in Louisiana and Texas have advised court clerks that they may ignore the watershed decision if they have religious objections. The Constitution, however, does not permit the State to bar same-sex couples from marriage on the same terms as accorded to couples of the opposite sex [emphasis added]. She put her ruling on hold until the Supreme Court ruled in a case challenging restrictive marriage bans in Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee and Kentucky. Upton. “We were thrilled that the Fifth Circuit moved so quickly to do so, and that should have been that”.

Thursday, federal District Judge Martin Feldman reversed his previous ruling upholding the state’s gay marriage ban, as reported by The Times-Picuyane….

A group of Mississippi circuit clerks said they’ll be issuing same-sex marriage licenses after meeting with Gov. Phil Bryant and a lawyer with the attorney general’s office and receiving some “clarity”.

Baton Rouge (US), Jun 30 (AP) Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s executive order that aims to give special protections to people who oppose same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and should be thrown out, gay rights advocates argue in a lawsuit filed today.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton echoed those sentiments.

“It has not gone unnoticed that Governor Jindal not only issued his “Marriage and Conscience Order” just hours after the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee voted not to advance an identical bill, but also one day after announcing an exploratory committee to prepare for a presidential run”, the lawsuit says.