Kansas

Equality Kansas Executive Director Tom Witt called the hearing “reprehensible.”

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Officials say no court order will be needed in the future to process birth certificate applications of children from same-sex couples who conceive by artificial insemination.

154 same-sex couples wed in Kansas, months before the Supreme Court legalized the unions nationwide.

A federal judge has ruled the state’s ban is unconstitutional in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized such unions nationwide.

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For now, U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree is giving Kansas the opportunity to voluntarily comply.

Tom Witt of Equality Kansas said Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will “dig in his heels every step of the way to deny married couples their legal rights.”

Kansas contended in a court filing that continued litigation “serves no legitimate purpose.”

Will a judge explicitly strike down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages? A federal court says Kansas must respond today before it makes its ruling.

“It is fairly clear the state of Kansas wants to do the absolute bare minimum recognition of these marriages that is possible and still be able to make some kind of claim that they are in compliance,” ACLU legal director Doug Bonney said Wednesday.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the nation, Kansas and Missouri legislators face debates next year over religious objections proposals and expanding their state’s anti-discrimination laws to protect gays and lesbians.

A prominent Kansas gay rights advocate on Thursday accused Republican Gov. Sam Brownback of trying to hinder same-sex couples, even as lawyers for the state said in a legal filing that Kansas has been prompt in complying with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.

The disclosure of the policy change was made in a filing Thursday asking U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of gay and lesbian couples.

The Kansas Chamber of Commerce says legislators should not pursue a new religious objections law following an executive order from Republican Gov. Sam Brownback protecting clergy and religious groups.

Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order in response to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. The order said the “imposition” of same-sex marriage could lead to “potential infringements” of religious liberties.

Kansas is allowing married gay and lesbian residents to change their names on driver’s licenses and is having the health insurance plan for state workers offer coverage to their same-sex spouses, officials said Tuesday.

The health insurance plan for Kansas state government workers is allowing married gay and lesbian couples to obtain coverage for their spouses.

The Kansas attorney general’s office says legal disputes involving the state’s same-sex marriage ban have cost taxpayers nearly $100,000 over the past 18 months.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback said Thursday that he’s considering proposing a new religious objections law for Kansas following the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage, and he defended his administration’s cautious response to the ruling.