Posted on 10/10/2014 7:19:28 AM PDT by redreno
Clark County granted its first same-sex marriage license just after 5 p.m. Thursday, ending days of legal wrangling and waiting for gay and lesbian couples across Nevada.
That license went to Theo Small and Antioco Carillo, one of eight couples that challenged that state’s gay marriage ban. That came after Clark County Clerk Diana Alba got the go-ahead from U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan.
Carillo and Small picked up their license ahead of 12 other couples queued up at the Clark County marriage bureau, but they aren’t be the first same-sex couple married in the state.
That distinction could go to state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson and his partner, Sherwood Howard, who were united on the marriage bureau steps a little more than an hour after Alba received the judge’s greenlight.
Diane Hawley and Carol Przybycien may have run a close second.
They, unlike many of those queued up at the bureau on Thursday, planned to make a beeline for the nearest downtown wedding chapel.
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America has gone from being the Greatest Country on Earth to being the Greatest Freak Show on Earth.
Why is the current administration so focused on destroying the sanctity of marriage?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-that-will-happen-now-that-sanctity-of-marriage-is-des#2i9cb9d
^ just trying to lighten things up with the current level of insanity...
In fact Prop 8 in California was thrown by the wayside.
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