Today, same-sex couples in Kentucky should have been getting some well-deserved recognition. Today they would have been allowed to legally change their names on official identification and receive the full benefits of any married couple in the state of Kentucky.
But they’re not, because a federal judge in Kentucky ruled that it could cause too much confusion to offer these rights “only to have them taken away,” depending on how an appeals court rules on the issue of same-sex marriage recognition in Kentucky.
"The Court has concerns about implementing an order which has dramatic effects, then having that order reversed, which is one possibility," U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II said. "Under such circumstances, rights once granted could be cast in doubt."
Attorneys Shannon Fauver and Laura Landenwich, who represent the multiple couples seeking to have their unions recognized, said they will ask the appeals court to lift the stay and let Heyburn’s original ruling take effect.
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