2nd N.M. county issuing same-sex marriage licenses

[RandySF]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The county clerk in the state capital and the heart of this state's gay rights movement on Friday began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a court-ordered move that came just two days after a county clerk in southern New Mexico decided on his own that recognize gay marriage.

Under orders from a judge overseeing a lawsuit by two Santa Fe men trying to get married, County Clerk Geraldine Salazar began issuing licenses to same-sex couples shortly after 1: 30 p.m.

The first same-sex couple to get a license in the state's third-largest county was Santa Fe County Commissioner Liz Stefanics and Linda Siegle, a lobbyist for Equality New Mexico, a gay rights group. Stefanics is a former Democratic state senator from Santa Fe.

Also receiving a license were the two men who filed the lawsuit that resulted in the court order directing the clerk to issue licenses — Alexander Hanna and Yon Hudson


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/23/new-mexico-same-sex-marriage-licenses/2693661/

[Warpy]

1. It's happening slowly

but I always said it would probably be low key and just one courthouse at a time. Between the state and Fed constitutions, there is just no wiggle room for the pious to try to declare same sex marriage illegal.

This wild west state can be remarkably civilized.