On reasonably good authority, here’s an update about Outagamie County Clerk Lori O’Bright: she will NOT waive the waiting period for marriages other than her three reasons which she stated in public on Monday:
1. the health of one of the individual’s marrying (although she did grant a waiver for one couple where the mother of one of the women is in hospice);
2. someone is in the military; and
3. for someone from out of state.
She is not granting waivers for legal emergencies, which this should qualify as.
Let’s elect a new county clerk when we get the chance.
Of course our Attorney General Van Hollen has now publicly stated that clerks issuing licenses could be facing legal issues. What a schmo. My hero of the day is Dane County’s Clerk Scott McDonnell, who said
the possibility of prosecution “doesn’t keep me up at night.” McDonell, the first clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Wisconsin, called Van Hollen’s claim of possible charges ridiculous.
“He needs to call off the dogs and turn off the fire hoses,” he said, invoking the civil rights protests of the 1960s.
Let’s move on, people. This fight is already over, and you’re just embarrassing yourselves now.