Pa. county that pioneered same-sex marriage licenses now unable to issue them
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[B]Montgomery County still unable to issue same-sex marriage licenses[/B]
[I] By Dan Clark, The Times Herald
Posted: 05/21/14, 11:58 AM EDT [/I]
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[I]D. Bruce Hanes, Register of Wills for Montgomery County, speaks on the release of marriage license to a same sex couple earlier in the day in his office in One Montgomery Plaza in Norristown July 24, 2013. Photo by Gene Walsh / Times Herald Staff [/I]
[quote]NORRISTOWN — The Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes will have to wait for the state’s Supreme Court to sign an order before his office will be allowed to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Montgomery County.
Montgomery County Communications Director Frank Custer said on Tuesday that Register of Wills offices in other counties are now allowed to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but since the order from the Commonwealth Court is still standing, Hanes is not allowed to.[/quote]
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[B]Pa. county that pioneered same-sex marriage licenses now unable to issue them[/B]
[I]By Frances Burns | May 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM[/I]
[I]Montgomery County in Pennsylvania waiting for the state Supreme Court to lift a ban on same-sex marriage licenses there.[/I]
[quote]Montgomery County, which jumped the gun last year on same-sex marriage licenses in Pennsylvania, is now the only county in the state unable to issue them.[/quote]
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