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Same-sex marriage supporters: ‘We’ll be back’

Attorney Deborah Ferguson, left, holds the last-minute stay issued Wednesday morning against same-sex marriages starting in Idaho; at right are two of her clients, Andrea Altmayer and Shelia Robertson. (Betsy Russell)
Attorney Deborah Ferguson, left, holds the last-minute stay issued Wednesday morning against same-sex marriages starting in Idaho; at right are two of her clients, Andrea Altmayer and Shelia Robertson. (Betsy Russell)

Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on this morning’s tumultuous events on the gay marriage front. As same-sex couples lined up for marriage licenses at county courthouses around the state, Gov. Butch Otter succeeded in winning a last-minute stay issued this morning by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Couples were turned away, some in tears; but in Twin Falls, one gay couple received a license before news of the stay arrived. Attorney Deborah Ferguson, who represents the four lesbian couples who successfully sued to overturn Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage, clutched the one-page order from Kennedy outside the Ada County Courthouse. She said she’ll file a response as directed, on or before 5 p.m. tomorrow. “We’ll be back,” she said.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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