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Related: About this forumU.S. Judge Hinkle: All clerks bound by U.S. Constitution to marry same-sex couples on Tuesday
Source: Miami Herald
BY STEVE ROTHAUS
01/01/2015 3:55 PM 01/01/2015 4:12 PM
U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle ruled New Years Day that all Florida clerks are bound by the U.S. Constitution not to enforce Florida's gay marriage ban and that any couple seeking a license on Tuesday should receive one.
The preliminary injunction now in effect thus does not require the Clerk to issue licenses to other applicants, Hinkle wrote in an order released Thursday afternoon. But as set out in the order that announced issuance of the preliminary injunction, the Constitution requires the Clerk to issue such licenses.
Said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida: This is a New Years Day present from federal Judge Robert Hinkle he has given Florida the roadmap to an orderly transition to being a state that treats all its people equally.
We are thankful that Judge Hinkle agreed with us that the Constitution does not tolerate discrimination and that, beginning Tuesday Jan. 6, all clerks in Florida have an obligation to issue marriage licenses to couples requesting them.
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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article5296830.html
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Dumbest lawsuit ever. The one this teabagging AG filed to block marriage equality.
JDDavis
(725 posts)This will be the best year of the lives of thousands of couples in Florida
Thanks to that judge and to people who have worked tirelessly at this issue for over 10 years around the USA.
Look what CAN BE done if we just keep working.
Florida, of all crazy conservative right wing enclaves in America
Getting our license in February, getting married in March.
brer cat
(24,592 posts)We will look for pictures in March!
Stryst
(714 posts)weddings.
Currently researching other options to have a less-than-public, non-church wedding. We live in a neighborhood where we've had some issues with some of our lovely, loving christian neighbors. Nothing major, mind you, just comments and a little graphiti on our fence once (in chalk, no less. How serious is your hate if it's water washable?)
We do attend Unitarian Universalist meetings, but the licenses reverend/minister guy (We just call him Mike) is shared between three fellowship halls, so I worry about scheduling.
Maybe I can convince the SO to move back to Texas, and we could just put all this off for a few more years.