Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said Wednesday that state officials have decided that about three hundred same-sex marriages that were performed in four counties in the state last weekend were legal, but that marital benefits for those couples will be on hold while a federal appeals court ponders the validity of a state ban on such unions. The governor’s statement is here.
The governor said the state’s refusal to recognize those new marriages for purposes of benefits was based on the fact that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday had postponed a federal judge’s decision striking down the state ban. State officials have appealed that decision to the Sixth Circuit, and the challengers have asked that court to put the review on an expedited schedule.
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Status of Michigan same-sex marriages
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