A Colorado county clerk who has been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples rejected the state attorney general’s demand to stop issuing the licenses on Tuesday.
“Same-sex licenses are legal and just and we will continue to issue them,” Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall said in a statement, as quoted by Reuters.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ office had offered Hall the chance to file a joint petition asking the Colorado Supreme Court to rule on whether she had the authority to issue same-sex marriage licenses, but only if she stopped granting them by noon on Tuesday. It’s not clear what legal action Suthers’ office plans to take going forward.
Separately, six same-sex couples filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court seeking to throw out the state’s ban on gay marriage in light of last week’s decision by a federal appeals court overturning Utah’s gay marriage ban.
Countdown to Libs squealing like a pig about how she is violating the law. 5…4…
No squealing here. First, I am all for marriage equality, period.
So many judges in various states have confirmed marriage equality, it’s hard for me to keep straight which state it’s legal. Is there any standing judgment for Colorado? Perhaps she’d using one of the federal judge rulings to apply to her state? I just don’t see yet where she’s getting the statement that it’s legal, except by fiat. Help me see this clearly.
She means Libs the commenter, not liberals. Correct me if I’m wrong imkmu3.
Oh, I’m pretty new to the comment section, so don’t know the famous users yet. thanks.
You’re correct. Sorry for the confusion.