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Marriage with person of same sex
In Kentucky only persons of the opposite sex may enter into marriage. See Elkhorn Coal Corporation v. Tackett, Ky., 49 S.W.2d 571, 573 (1932). Thus in Jones v. Hallahan, Ky., 501 S.W.2d 588 (1973), the court held that the attempted marriage between two women was not a valid marriage since by being of the same sex they were incapable of entering into a “marriage” as the term is defined by common usage. The court concluded that it could find “no constitutional sanction or protection of the right of marriage between persons of the same sex.”
As a practical matter, how does a state comply with a Supreme Court edict? I’m sure there are all sorts of laws regarding marriage. Who decides which parts of those laws are still valid? It seems a lot of politicians are simply enforcing the court’s edict without actually rewriting any of the applicable laws.