New Mexico Judge Puts Same-Sex Marriage On Hold Pending Supreme Court Ruling

While some New Mexico county clerks are issuing same-sex marriage licenses, one county is not doing so after a local judge put a case on hold-pending a ruling on same-sex marriage by the New Mexico Supreme Court. New Mexico's laws are silent on whether same-sex marriages are prohibited or allowable. That state's Supreme Court is picking up the issue after "clerks from all of New Mexico’s 33 counties voted Aug. 28 to seek a ruling from the high court on the legality of same-sex marriage," the Rio Rancho Observer reports.