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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Penn. Lawsuit Seeks to Stop County From Issuing Same-Sex Marriage Licenses


A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania Tuesday seeks to stop one county from continuing to violate state law by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The suit was filed by the state's Department of Health against D. Bruce Hanes in his role as the Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Montgomery County. Under state law, marriage is defined as a "civil contract by which one man and one woman take each other for husband and wife," but the petition says Hanes announced on July 23 that his office would begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Read more

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