Judge orders Ohio to recognize out-of-state gay ‘marriage’ despite state’s marriage amendment
CINCINNATI, July 23, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A U.S. district judge has ordered a clerk in the state of Ohio to recognize a same-sex “marriage” conducted in another state, because the state's constitutional amendment defining marriages does “likely violate the U.S. Constitution .” U.S. District Magistrate Timothy Black declared in his opinion on Monday that the “purpose served by” the amendment in “treating same-sex married couples differently than opposite-sex married couples is the same improper purpose that failed in Windsor and in Romer : ‘to impose inequality’ and to make gay citizens unequal under the law.” Judge Timothy Black is an Obama appointee His words echoed last month's vituperous opinion from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy striking down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Judge Black ordered a registrar in Cincinnati to affirm the partner of a terminally ill homosexual as his “husband” after their seven-minu