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That reads to me like only an authorize person can conduct a marriage ceremony. And putting 2 + 2 together. An authorized person can only conduct the ceremony if there is a legal marriage license. All authorized persons would of course know the requirement to have a legal license.

It will be fun watching the law suits fly should it be determined that license issued since the SC ruling are not legal. I expect the legislature do to something (license amnesty?) to prevent a lawyer feeding frenzy over illegal licenses. If not the civil courts in Kentucky will be busy.

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My daughter was married in Germany and not issued a US license from our state. Why is it legal? Because it was in the presence of an authorized person or society.

So, the requirement of a state issued marriage license is fungible.

That is one reason I wonder if the Amish apply for state marriage licenses. I don’t really know.