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 The court did not address whether same-sex marriage should be
allowed in all Kansas counties following a federal judge's ruling on
Nov. 4 that clerks in Sedgwick and Douglas counties must issue
marriage licenses to gay couples.
Johnson County, which includes suburban Kansas City and is the
state's most populous, had begun taking marriage license
applications from same-sex couples in October, but was blocked
temporarily from issuing licenses by the state Supreme Court.
The court noted on Tuesday that U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree
had found the Kansas ban violated the U.S. Constitution when he
granted a preliminary injunction that requires Sedgwick and Douglas
counties to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court last Wednesday denied a Kansas request to
delay Crabtree's order from taking effect and marriage licenses are
now being issued to same-sex couples in some, but not all, counties
in Kansas.
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Including Kansas, same-sex marriage is now legal in 33 states plus
the District of Columbia.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Kansas; Editing by David
Bailey and Peter Cooney)
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