LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The head of a gay rights group is seeking full federal recognition of same-sex couples married in Arkansas.
Gay couples began getting married in the state Saturday and more were lined up to wed Monday. Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said the group asked the Department of Justice to recognize the unions. A similar move was extended to Utah couples who married before a gay-marriage ruling was put on hold.
Arkansas’ attorney general has filed a notice that he would appeal a judge’s ruling that paved the way for this weekend’s same-sex marriages.
A lawyer for gay couples who sued for the right to obtain a marriage license in Arkansas said if the state’s Supreme Court rules against them, they would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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