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The couples who challenged Proposition 8, pictured after a hearing in San Francisco in December, planned to wed Friday: Sandy Stier and Kris Perry and Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo.
By Pete Williams and M. Alex Johnson, NBC News
A federal appeals court on Friday dissolved the stay blocking same-sex marriage in California, opening the way for weddings immediately across the nation's most populous state.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights said late Friday that both couples who challenged Proposition 8 ? the California law that had?barred same-sex marriage in California?? would be married immediately. California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a tweet that she would personally marry one of the two couples,?Sandy Stier and Kris Perry,?in San Francisco.
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris tweeted Friday that she would officiate at the first same-sex marriage.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals lifted the stay two days after the Supreme Court declined to rule on Prop 8, thereby upholding a lower court's decision overturning the measure.?The appeals court had blocked enforcement of that ruling pending the Supreme Court decision.
The justices also struck down?the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law passed by Congress that barred recognition of same-sex marriages.?
Harris had signaled Wednesday in a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown that same-sex marriages would likely begin immediately. She wrote that she had advised the State Department of Public Health to instruct county clerks to resume recording the marriages of same-sex couples as soon as the stay was lifted.
This story was originally published on Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:59 PM EDT
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