U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore issued his ruling today overturning Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage. His ruling comes less than a month after a state district judge ruled in a separate care that the ban is unconstitutional.
Moore rejected Attorney General John Suthers’ argument that failing to issue a stay would be harmful to the state and cause legal confusion. But the judge did temporarily stay his ruling to give Suthers’ office until 8 a.m. on Aug. 25 to appeal his ruling to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Read The Denver Post’s story on the ruling and the complicated background of state court rulings vs. federal court vs. a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in a similar case in Utah and the more than 3oo marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in Colorado since June 25.
