PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …Bruce Hanes, the Montgomery County Register of Wills, has issued more than 30 licenses in the week since he began accepting same-sex applications last week. On Tuesday, Gov. Tom Corbett’s Office of General Counsel sued to stop Hanes…
State Attorney General Kathleen Kane said earlier in July that she would not defend the state against lawsuits calling into question the legality of Pennsylvania’s Marriage Act. The commonwealth is one of 35 states that prohibits same-sex marriage.
Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration is expected to defend the state’s one man-one woman marriage law in court following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) ruling that struck down several provisions of the law. DOMA is the federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman… (more)
