TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gay and lesbian couples can obtain marriage licenses in almost all of the state’s 105 counties, with the number growing after last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.
Court clerks in at least 94 counties either were issuing licenses to same-sex couples Tuesday or were prepared to do so. That’s up from 61 counties before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring gay marriage legal across the nation.
But the state isn’t yet allowing gay and lesbian spouses to change their last names on their driver’s licenses, and it hasn’t reversed its policy of not allowing joint income tax returns.
Officials in Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration said they’re still studying the high court’s ruling. Kansas voters in 2005 added a provision against gay marriage to the state constitution.
