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Governor Beshear mentioned he would employ outside counsel to enchantment Heyburn's ruling in Bourke to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and to request a keep pending enchantment. On November 9, 1973, the Kentucky Court of Appeals dominated in Jones v. Hallahan that two girls have been properly denied a marriage license in Louisville based on dictionary definitions of marriage, even though state statutes did not restrict marriage to reverse-sex couples. Judge Wingate sided with the Kentucky Equality Federation towards the state. On April 16, 2015, Kentucky Equality Federation v. Beshear was ruled on by Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Wingate. Supreme Court ruling, 4 Kentucky counties had been known to have refused (or introduced they would refuse) to issue marriage licenses to similar-sex couples. Governor Beshear ordered county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to similar-sex couples, "Neither your oath nor the Supreme Court dictate what you should believe. But as elected officials, they do prescribe how we must act.", he wrote to county clerks. The plaintiffs in Bourke argued that Kentucky ought to recognize identical-sex marriages from different jurisdictions. On February 14, 2014, two identical-sex couples who have been denied marriage licenses in Kentucky asked to be allowed to intervene in Bourke. |
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