By Steve Barn LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Rters) - Several same-sex upl Arkansas were married at a unty urthoe Eureka Sprgs on Saturday, a day after a state judge stck down the state's 10-year-old ban on gay and lbian marriage. The same-sex marriag were the first the U.S. South, where every state has laws on the books banng gay marriage, acrdg to Freedom to Marry, an advocy group. About 50 upl had led up at the urthoe Eureka Sprgs, a town of about 2,500 the northwt part of the state wh a vibrant lbian, gay and transsexual muny, on Saturday morng seekg licens. The first same-sex uple to marry was Krist Seaton, 27, and Jennifer Rambo, 26, both of Fort Smh, Arkansas, lol media reported.
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- GAY UPL MARRY ARKANSAS, MOST CLERKS S OUT
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- JUDGE OPENS DOOR TO GAY WEDDGS ARKANSAS
- JUDGE L GAYS LEGALLY WED STATE
- ARKANSAS SAME-SEX UPL WED AFTER JUDGE ENDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
GAY UPL MARRY ARKANSAS, MOST CLERKS S OUT
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * gay marriage judge arkansas *
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) — More than 200 gay upl obtaed marriage licens Monday the nservative southern state of Arkansas after a judge tossed out s 10-year-old same-sex marriage ban, but only at a handful of urtho as an overwhelmg majory of unty clerks said they first wanted the state Supreme Court to weigh . Attorney General Dt McDaniel — who recently announced his personal support for same-sex marriage rights but said he would fend the law — filed paperwork Monday to at least temporarily prerve the ban, which voters approved by a 3-to-1 other stat that have seen gay-marriage bans overturned, judg eher issued stays wh their orrs or state lawyers sought them wh some immediacy. Usg siar language, judg have sce led agast gay-marriage bans Arkansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia and Texas, and orred Kentucky, Oh and Tennsee to regnize same-sex marriag om other stat.
Carroll County, home to the town of Eureka Sprgs and known for s arts environment and liberal polici, issued 15 licens to same-sex upl Saturday but stopped Monday to awa word om the state's high 2004 gay-marriage ban passed all 75 unti, but fared poort around Ltle Rock and other areas where the bulk of the licens have been issued.
Washgton County had 84 gay upl — wh office employe at Fayetteville g Whe-Out to rrect "Mr. Jtice Department to extend feral regnn to the upl married Arkansas, makg them eligible for the same feral benefs as heterosexual Alaska Monday, five gay upl challenged the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unnstutnal a lawsu filed feral urt Anchorage.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge has opened the door for gay upl Arkansas to wed, lg that the state's ban on same-sex marriage has "no ratnal reason" for preventg gay upl om marryg. * gay marriage judge arkansas *
It also lls for barrg enforcement of any state laws that refe to regnize gay marriag legally performed other stat or untri or that prevent unmarried gay upl om voters 1998 approved a state nstutnal amendment fg marriage as beg between one man and one woman.
Keywords:BC-US--Gay Marriage-Arkansas, 2nd Ld-WrethCategory:News/NatnPublisher:APATOM. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.
JUDGE OPENS DOOR TO GAY WEDDGS ARKANSAS
State marriage licens issued to gay upl last year are jt as valid as those issued to their heterosexual unterparts, a Pulaski County circu judge led Tuday as Arkansas was for a higher urt to ci the qutn of whether same-sex upl have a right to marry. * gay marriage judge arkansas *
(AP) — An Arkansas judge has opened the door for gay upl Arkansas to wed, lg that the state's ban on same-sex marriage has "no ratnal reason" for preventg gay upl om marryg.
He didn't put his lg on hold as some judg have done other stat, and 's possible gay upl uld beg seekg marriage licens Saturday, if they n fd a clerk willg to issue strikg down the ban, Piazza wrote that is "an unnstutnal attempt to narrow the fn of equaly. ""The excln of a mory for no ratnal reason is a dangero precent, " he said his Attorney General Dt McDaniel's office said he would appeal the lg and asked Piazza to spend durg that lg me a week after McDaniel announced he personally supports gay marriage rights but would ntue to fend the nstutnal ban urt.
JUDGE L GAYS LEGALLY WED STATE
Piazza's lg also overturns a 1997 state law banng gay his cisn, Piazza ced the U. Sce then, lower-urt judg have repeatedly ced the cisn when strikg down some of the same-sex marriage bans that were enacted after Massachetts started regnizg gay marriag 2004.
Feral judg have led agast marriage bans Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia and Texas, and orred Kentucky, Oh and Tennsee to regnize same-sex marriag om other all, acrdg to gay-rights groups, more than 70 lawsus seekg marriage equaly are pendg about 30 stat.
State marriage licens issued to gay upl last year are jt as valid as those issued to their heterosexual unterparts, a Pulaski County circu judge led Tuday as Arkansas was for a higher urt to ci the qutn of whether same-sex upl have a right to marry. Document SetGay marriage ArkansasView All.
ARKANSAS SAME-SEX UPL WED AFTER JUDGE ENDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
The appeal of Piazza’s cisn to the Arkansas Supreme Court spend his lg on May 16, 2014, and halted clerks om ntug to issue licens to gay upl.
“Virtually every day, we ntue to see tremendo signs of progrs toward realizg the dream of marriage equaly for gay and lbian Arkansans, ” said the mpaign’s Arkansas chapter director Kendra R. Jerry Cox, founr and print of the Arkansas Fay Council, which has spoken out agast gay marriage, did not return a ll left on his cellphone seekg ment.
By Steve Barn LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Rters) - Several same-sex upl Arkansas were married at a unty urthoe Eureka Sprgs on Saturday, a day after a state judge stck down the state's 10-year-old ban on gay and lbian marriage.