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Colo. Supreme Court orders Denver to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses
DENVER — Colorado’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered Denver’s clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples while 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 stayed his decision pending appeal, meaning the prohibition remains active.
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Colo. baker appeals order that he provide wedding cakes for gay couples
DENVER — A Lakewood, Colo., baker is appealing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s order that he prepare wedding cakes for same-sex couples. Jack Phillips on Wednesday asked the Court of Appeals to reverse the May ruling by the Civil Rights Commission. Phillips was sued by a same-sex couple after he refused to make a cake to celebrate their wedding in 2012.
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Federal judge considers separate Colorado same-sex marriage challenge
DENVER — A federal judge says he will decide by July 25 whether to order Colorado to immediately allow same-sex couples to marry. U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore is presiding over a lawsuit against the state’s samesex marriage ban. There is no dispute that he will find that the ban is unconstitutional. The only disagreement is whether he should…
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Marriage News Watch: Calif. anniversary, waiting on Va. ruling, Colo. ban falls
This week’s Marriage News Watch report from Matt Baume at the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) marks the one year anniversary of the return of marriage equality in California. It was in late June 2013 that the AFER’s case to overturn Proposition 8 finally concluded and equality was restored. Now, we’re awaiting a ruling in AFER’s Virginia case…
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Colorado AG asks state Supreme Court to stop same-sex marriages
DENVER — Colorado’s attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to uphold Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban and stop gay couples from marrying. Republican Attorney General John Suthers on Monday asked the court to stop county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to the couples until it rules on his appeal of a lower court’s ruling that the…
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Colo. judge refuses to halt same-sex marriages in Denver
DENVER — A judge on Monday refused to stop a Denver clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex, despite a still-active ban against the practice. Colorado District Judge C. Scott Crabtree last week ruled that the state’s 2006 voter-approved gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. But he put that ruling on hold pending appeal, meaning the Colorado ban…
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Third Colo. county clerk issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
PUEBLO, Colo. — A third Colorado county began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Friday even though the legal fight is far from resolved in the state. Pueblo County joined Denver and Boulder County in allowing gay couples to marry a day after a state judge ruled the Boulder clerk can continue issuing the licenses.
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First same-sex couples begin marrying in Denver despite gay marriage ban
DENVER — Same-sex couples can keep getting married in Colorado, even though the state’s gay marriage ban is still in effect, a judge ruled Thursday. The decision added to the national confusion over same-sex marriage, as the judge said a county clerk can continue giving marriage licenses to gay couples despite what the state’s attorney general calls …
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Denver city clerk says she will issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
DENVER — Denver’s city clerk says she will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite Colorado ban. Debra Johnson announced her decision shortly after a judge ruled that her counterpart in the liberal college town of Boulder can continue to grant gay marriage licenses.
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Judge: Boulder clerk can continue issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
DENVER — A Boulder County clerk who has been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of Colorado’s gay-marriage ban has been cleared to continue. Boulder County Judge Andrew Hartman ruled Thursday that county clerk Hillary Hall can ignore a federal stay on a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver …