Top Colorado Court halts Denver gay marriages
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered Denver’s clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples while the state’s ban against the unions remains in place.
The two-page ruling noted that a judge who earlier this month ruled the ban was unconstitutional put his decision on hold until it was appealed, meaning the definition of marriage approved by Colorado voters in 2006, as between one man and one woman, remains active.
Denver Clerk & Recorder Debra Johnson is one of three clerks in Colorado who began issuing licenses to same-sex couples recently after a string of legal victories for gay marriage in the state.
The decision may not stop two other county clerks from continuing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, or provide the sort of statewide certainty that Attorney General John Suthers sought when he asked the top court for an emergency order.
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