New Mexico’s Grant County will soon become the seventh county in recent weeks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Grant County Clerk Robert Zamarripa said his office will begin issuing licenses to same sex couples on Monday, according to the Associated Press. The clerk said he will comply with a district judge’s order issued following a lawsuit brought by a lesbian couple.
Zamarripa’s decision came the same week that Los Alamos County Clerk Sharon Stover refused to follow a court order to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Stover must appear in court to argue why she should not have to issue the marriage licenses.
A number of New Mexico clerks recently took legal action to push the New Mexico Supreme Court to rule on whether all clerks in the state have to issue licenses to same-sex couples.
