ARIZONA BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE STRUCK DOWN AS STATES GIVE UP FIGHT (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 17, 2014, 18:42

Marriage bans in Arizona and Alaska were struck down on Friday, while a federal judge in Wyoming ordered the state to allow same-sex marriage but stayed his decision for nearly a week to allow an appeal.

The conservative attorney general in Arizona said he wouldn’t challenge the decision of US district judge John Sedwick to strike strike down Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban on Friday morning.

Tom Horne said continuing to defend the state’s marriage ban would be an “an exercise in futility”.

“Therefore, the only purpose to be served by filing another appeal would be to waste the taxpayer’s money,” Horne said. “That is not a good conservative principle.”

Couples across the state quickly rushed to wed.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/arizona-ban-struck-down-holder-same-sex-gay-marriage