Another state attorney general has seen the light in the wake of the US Supreme Court verdicts on Prop 8 and DOMA section 3. The Alamogordo Daily News reports:
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King told the state’s highest court on Monday that a prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. In written arguments filed with the court, King said the justices should invalidate the state’s ban on gay marriage if they agree to resolve the issue in a lawsuit filed by two Santa Fe men who were denied a marriage license. King, a Democrat who plans to run for governor next year against Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, said New Mexico law effectively doesn’t allow gay marriages although there’s no statutory provision that specifically prohibits, or authorizes, gay couples to be married.
It would be great to have a Southwestern state with full marriage equality, wouldn’t it?
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