Arkansas same-sex marriages to resume after judge strikes down secondary ban

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Same-sex weddings will resume again in Arkansas tomorrow, following a ruling by a judge striking down a secondary marriage ban.

Judge Chris Piazza originally struck down the state’s constitutional same-sex marriage ban on Friday, leading hundreds of couples to immediately attempt to marry.

Though most counties declined to issue marriage licenses until directed to, on Saturday a lesbian couple became the first to marry, when Pulaski County decided to begin marrying couples.

However, the state’s Supreme Court found in a judgement yesterday that Piazza’s ruling did not mention a statute that prohibits clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, and found it to be still in effect, causing same-sex marriages to yet again cease.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/05/15/us-arkansas-same-sex-marriages-to-resume-after-judge-strikes-down-secondary-ban/

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1. Yay!