Colorado Supreme Court puts halt to Boulder gay marriage licenses

[alp227]

Source: Denver Post

Boulder's county clerk and recorder was ordered Tuesday to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples immediately while the Colorado Supreme Court takes up the debate.

The state's highest court announced Tuesday that it would hear arguments in an ongoing fight over whether clerks can issue marriage licenses to gay couples before the U.S. Supreme Court decides the constitutionality of gay marriage bans.

"We are pleased that the focus may now return to the important constitutional issues posed by the same-sex marriage cases pending in Colorado and around the country," Attorney General John Suthers said in a statement.

In saying it would take the case, the state Supreme Court ordered Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall — the last clerk in Colorado still issuing licenses to gay couples — to stop.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26238435/colorado-supreme-court-puts-halt-boulder-gay-marriage

[Rhiannon12866]

1. What??! Recreational pot is legal, but people can't get married?

These are very strange times.

[kaiden]

2. Know this:

Two of the three women on Colorado's Supreme Court are Lesbians. One, Monica Marquez, is openly gay. This stay is merely a blip in Colorado's march to equality.

[alp227]

3. I don't get your post.

Marquez is "openly gay" but what about the other LGBT woman on the state supreme court?

[kaiden]

5. The other justice was appointed a couple of decades ago.

She is older and has chosen to remain silent about her orientation, although her orientation is no secret. Our law firm is representing the Denver Plaintiffs in the combined Adams County case, Brinkman and Byrd v. Adams County and McDaniel-Miccio, et al v. State of Colorado, et al. John Suthers, the Colorado AG, is waging this losing battle because he wants to be mayor of Colorado Springs, so he is pumping up his bona fides.

[politicat]

6. Ya know, that so explains everything about Suthers.

I've been trying to figure out why the hell he was fighting so hard when he's about to be turfed anyway and wasn't running for anything state-wide.

Damn, I miss MaryLou Makepeace down there.

[kaiden]

7. Last night, we filed our application for attorney fees and costs.

Since the State of Colorado lost to the marriage equality plaintiffs in Adams County, the State must pay the attorney fees and costs for both sets of plaintiffs. Our application alone came to $520,000; the Adams County plaintiffs' application was close to $200,000. I wonder how those teabagging fools would react if they could get their little brains around the fact that their tax dollars will be paying liberal law firms? LOL.

[politicat]

8. Good for you!

I like seeing my tax dollars at work that way!

Though you may be ascribing more cranial content than available to wrap around even a simple idea like marriage equality. Cerebrospinal fluid is viscous and liquid, but wrappable, it ain't.

[kaiden]

9. hahahahahaha!

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Gay = "Stay."