US: California county clerks urge court to continue to allow same-sex marriage licences
County clerks in the US state of California have urged courts to continue to allow the issue of same-sex marriage licences, despite calls from some for further clarification on the Supreme Court’s Proposition 8 ruling.
Twenty-four county clerks from around California weighed in to say that there should be no interruption to the issuing of marriage licences to same-sex couples.
The US Supreme Court last month refused to rule on the case of Proposition 8, California’s state-wide ban on equal marriage. It therefore deferred to the District Court’s 2010 ruling, allowing same-sex weddings to resume.
Despite two court filings challenging the decision by the Supreme Court by arguing that the Proposition 8 ruling only applied to the plaintiffs in the case, the 24 clerks said that it should apply state-wide.
The Supreme Court in the US state of California already refused to halt the resume of same-sex marriages in the state earlier this week, following the US Supreme Court’s ruling last month, and a petition filed challenging it.
Earlier this month supporters of California’s Proposition 8 filed a petition to the state Supreme Court challenging the recent resume of same-sex wedding ceremonies, however the Supreme Court refused to do so.
