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KANSAS: State Supreme Court Stops Marriage Licenses In Johnson County

Via the Associated Press: The Kansas Supreme Court has blocked the state’s most populous county from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, hours after the first one was issued under an order from a lower-court judge. The Supreme Court issued a three-page order in response to a petition filed by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. The high court said it …

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NINTH New Wikipedia Map This Week

Marriages are happening immediately in the two affected North Carolina counties, which comprise over 1.2M residents. In Idaho, we await the formality of a mandate from the Ninth Circuit, just as we did yesterday afternoon in Nevada.

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NORTH CAROLINA: Federal Court Issues Limited Strikedown Of Marriage Ban

Matt Comer reports at Q Notes: A federal judge in North Carolina’s Western District has issued an order permanently prohibiting defendants in a United Church of Christ lawsuit against North Carolina’s anti-LGBT amendment from enforcing the ban. Additionally, the judge denied Republican state leaders’ motion to intervene in the case. U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., issued his …

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BREAKING: Idaho! Idaho! Idaho!

And we get our NINTH state after all! UPDATE: From the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Today, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected a request by State of Idaho officials to put on hold the federal appeals court decision that struck down as unconstitutional Idaho’s laws prohibiting marriage by same-sex couples. The Supreme Court’s decision allows the United …

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Cardinal Raymond Burke: Families Should Not Expose Kids To Evil Gay Relatives

Jeremy Hooper has some of the transcript at Good As You: “If homosexual relations are intrinsically disordered, which indeed they are — reason teaches us that and also our faith — then, what would it mean to grandchildren to have present at a family gathering a family member who is living [in] a disordered relationship with another person?”…”We wouldn’t, if …

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KANSAS: Attorney General Derek Schmidt Asks Court To Block Johnson County Marriage Licenses As First Couple Weds

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today asked the state Supreme Court to block same-sex marriage licenses in Johnson County.  A lawsuit demanding that Kansas recognize out-of-state marriages was filed in December 2013, but there is presently no challenge to the Kansas ban itself. Schmidt argues that Chief District Judge Kevin Moriarty exceeded his authority when he directed the court clerk …

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