Ohio must recognize gay couple's marriage, judge rules
A federal judge in Ohio has ordered state officials there to recognize the Maryland marriage of a terminally ill gay Cincinnati man on his state death certificate.
The man and his husband, who were wed in Maryland, where gay marriage is legal, expect he will die soon.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Black to grant John Arthur and his husband, Jim Obergefell, a temporary restraining order against the 2004 Ohio law banning recognition of gay marriage came despite a warning from the state's attorney general that it could contribute to a broad rewriting of Ohio law in favor of such unions.
Arthur and Obergefell wed this month in a special medical jet on a tarmac at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Hanover, Md. Arthur suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and can't travel without medical support.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ohio-gay-marriage-20130724,0,1167011.story
The order is temporary and applies only to this couple but the judge wrote at length about the inherent unfairness of Ohio's constitutional amendment against marriage equality.