BaltimoreSun:
A federal judge in Ohio has ordered state officials there to recognize the Maryland marriage of a terminally ill gay Cincinnati man on his state death certificate.
He and his husband expect he will die soon.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Black to grant John Arthur and his husband Jim Obergefell a temporary restraining order against the 2004 Ohio law banning recognition of their marriage came despite a warning from the state's attorney general that it could contribute to a broad rewriting of Ohio law in favor of such unions, which are currently banned in the state....
Congratulations to the happy couple!
Those people in Ohio, like Kasich and Mike DeWine, that have rejected the rights and privileges of marriage equality are probably sad today. It doesn't matter. Soon justice, and happiness will win, and everyone will be able to marry they person they love.
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* An Ohio Republican is refusing to resign.
Dispatch:
State Rep. Peter Beck is rejecting calls by the House speaker and the Ohio Republican chairman to resign from his seat in the wake of a 16-count felony indictment related to securities fraud and theft....
....Beck was the chief financial officer of Christopher Technologies, a start-up software firm. John Fussner of Mason, the president of Christopher Technologies, also was indicted on seven felony counts.....
Stay in office. It just tarnishes the rest of the GOP.
