County clerk offices in the state of California are inundated with an influx of marriage license applications since the state’s legalization of same-sex marriages. Officials reported record numbers of distributions last Tuesday, according to a Los Angeles Times article.
Marriage licenses were issued to same-sex and heterosexual couples, although county clerks in many locations indicated that the majority handed out Tuesday and Wednesday were to gay couples. New marriage applications replace the terms “bride” and “groom” with “Party A” and “Party B” and do not indicate the sex of the applicants.
The security of these recent unions will be challenged in November, however, when California residents vote to amend the state Constitution and again ban same-sex marriage.
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