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Baitball Blogger

(46,715 posts) Tue Dec 16, 2014, 05:32 PM Dec 2014

Today's Award for Prick Law Firm of the week goes to Greenberg Traurig

Law firm to Florida court clerks: Issue same-sex marriage licenses and you risk arrest

Gay rights activists were ecstatic: Come Jan. 6, they thought, Florida same-sex couples would be lining up at courthouses around the state to get married.

But that is not what the people who issue marriage licenses in Florida — county clerks of court — say.

They are trying to determine whether a Tallahassee law firm is right when it says that every Florida clerk, except the one in Washington County, would be committing a crime if he or she issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The firm of Greenberg Traurig, legal counsel to the Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers, this week updated a memo it sent July 1 that says the same thing: If you issue a marriage license to two people of the same sex, you've committed a first-degree misdemeanor and could spend a year in the county jail.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-gay-marriage-florida-clerks-20141216-story.html

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Today's Award for Prick Law Firm of the week goes to Greenberg Traurig (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Dec 2014 OP

Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #1

It's a tricky situation. Many clerks do want to go ahead and issue licenses I believe el_bryanto Dec 2014 #2

Its a private law firm for an association only the State Attorney General Historic NY Dec 2014 #3

I was about to ask if they had the weight to throw around. malokvale77 Dec 2014 #5

Repression tactic ... GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #4

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

1. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 05:38 PM

Dec 2014

Someday enough of us will get together and fucking DARE pukes like this to try it..

Someday holding such a position of hate and intolerance will be so unpopular you wouldnt dare.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

2. It's a tricky situation. Many clerks do want to go ahead and issue licenses I believe

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 05:54 PM

Dec 2014

But if the ruling only applies to Washington County than clerks in other counties may be breaking the law if they issue those marriage licenses. It also depends on what the opinion of the local District Attorney is as he or she will be the one who will actually have to decide whether or not to prosecute. In some cases they might be on the same page - in others they won't be.

And of course there are clerks, largely in northern Florida, who want to stop same sex marriage and are applauding this.

Bryant