Tweet Email 23rd May 2014, 12:01 AM
Joseph Patrick McCormick, PinkNews.co.uk
Michael Nutter will perform same-sex weddings on Friday
As of Friday, the Mayor in the US city of Philadelphia will perform
same-sex weddings at City Hall.
Dozens of gay and lesbian couples in the US state of Pennsylvania
rushed this week to obtain marriage licences, as a judge struck down
its same-sex marriage ban.
There is a three-day waiting period for marriage there, so despite
there being no defence of the ban, weddings won’t start there until
Friday.
A 1996 state law defined marriage as between one man and one woman,
but in a Tuesday ruling, US District Judge John Jones ruled that the
ban was unconstitutional.
One couple – Catherine Hennessy and Kristin Keith told the Associated
Press that they had not intended to marry immediately, but when Mayor
Michael Nutter said he would marry them, they moved it up.
Judges in Philadelphia plan to be at City Hall waiting to perform marriages.
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