Colorado Attorney General John Suthers advised county clerks Tuesday to issue same-sex marriage licenses to couples who request them.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the seven same-sex marriage cases before it, allowing gay couples in Oklahoma, Utah, Indiana, Virginia, and Wisconsin to marry immediately. In the wake of that decision, the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted injunctions that had prevented three of the state’s county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
Read Suthers’ statement below:
“There are no remaining legal requirements that prevent same-sex couples from legally marrying in Colorado. Beginning today, Colorado’s 64 county clerks are legally required to issue licenses to same-sex couples who request them. In addition, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is required to register such marriages in the records of the State of Colorado.”
#IT’S THE END TIMES!!!
But seriously, can we focus on the family?
It just killed Suthers to say it, too.
There was a county clerk in Boulder who was issuing the things hand over fist before Suthers ordered clerks to stop; she kept doing it anyway until Suthers addressed her directly.
This is the ® AG of Colorado, mind you. He probably doesn’t want to pull a Kobach and attract any unnecessary attention to himself and end up losing his job.
Even the Mormon (the second ‘m’ is silent) church is admitting defeat and throwing in the towel, uhr - Magic Undies.
“As far as the civil law is concerned,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday afternoon, “the courts have spoken.”
Which will put Mittens in a weird position. How can he call for a Federal Constitutional Amendment when his church says the matter is closed?