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   From: dstirling@nextel.com   
      
   DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a county   
   clerk in Boulder to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex   
   couples, halting the practice a month after a handful of county   
   clerks had defied a ban in the State Constitution.   
      
   The order came as the state’s Supreme Court prepared to hear   
   arguments over whether it should enforce the state’s law against   
   same-sex unions as myriad lawsuits challenging the bans here and   
   across the country churn toward the United States Supreme Court.   
      
   It was the latest twist in a legal saga over same-sex marriage   
   in Colorado, and the move disappointed advocates and same-sex   
   couples who have celebrated a streak of victories in the state   
   and across the country. The most recent of those wins came on   
   Monday, when a federal appeals panel overturned Virginia’s ban   
   on same-sex marriage.   
      
   In Colorado, state and federal judges handed down rulings this   
   month declaring the state’s ban on same-sex marriage   
   unconstitutional.   
      
   But a flurry surrounding the issue began even earlier when   
   county clerks in Boulder, Denver and Pueblo, in Southern   
   Colorado, seized on a June 25 ruling by a federal appeals court   
   overturning Utah’s same-sex marriage ban. Because that panel,   
   the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, also   
   has jurisdiction in Colorado, many supporters of same-sex   
   marriage argued the state’s ban no longer applied.   
      
   The clerk in Boulder, Hillary Hall, was the first to announce   
   that she would issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and   
   kept issuing them in the face of escalating legal action from   
   Colorado’s attorney general, John W. Suthers, who is a   
   Republican. Ms. Hall’s office had issued 202 licenses to same-   
   sex couples.   
      
   Mr. Suthers’s office argued that the issuing of licenses was   
   creating “statewide confusion and legal chaos.” Ms. Hall had   
   said she was simply trying to honor people’s constitutional   
   rights.   
      
   In a statement on Tuesday, Ms. Hall said she was disappointed   
   but would not defy the court’s order. Clerks in Boulder and   
   Pueblo have stopped issuing the licenses.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/colorado-clerk-told-to-stop-   
   issuing-gay-marriage-licenses.html?_r=0   
      
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