A stay hasn't been issued in Arkansas yet so a few more counties performed same-sex marriages today. The original suit listed six counties, so the rest said we don't have to abide by the ruling. And at least one of the six didn't allow same-sex couples to marry because, gosh, the computer form lists "man" and "woman." To which another county clerk (one that didn't allow gays to marry) responded there's always a typewriter.
So hundreds of same-sex couples in Arkansas (and Texas and Oklahoma) hurried to the handful of county offices to get married today. The busiest was for Pulaski County, which includes Little Rock.
Ari Ezra Waldman of Towleroad reviews the Arkansas decision. This went before a state court because the suit included the claim that the marriage ban violated the Arkansas Constitution. A reader wondered why the ban could be in conflict with the Constitution since it is a part of the Constitution. It's because with the ban the document is in conflict with itself and some parts -- the stuff about equal rights -- takes precedence.
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