[UPDATED:] Same-Sex Couples Must Wait Another 15 Hours to Wed in Orange County Than in LA


UPDATE: A California appeals court has banned gay weddings indefinitely while it considers whether Prop 8 is unconstitutional.

Barring court intervention, gay weddings will resume in California at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

The Los Angeles County Clerk, in preparation of a probable onslaught of marriage license requests by same-sex couples, extended hours Wednesday to 8 p.m.

As for Dean Logan's Orange County counterpart, Tom Daly?

Not so much.
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The county clerk of Orange County tells the Orange County Register that one of his offices that issues marriage licenses closes at 4:30 p.m. and the other two call it at day at 4 p.m.


Thus, Daly said, neither will be open when the ban is lifted at 5 p.m.

However, Orange County's offices will be ready to start doling out marriage licenses to couples of all sexual stripes beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday, vowed the former longtime Anaheim mayor.

That is, the clerk offices will unless an injunction barring nuptials for gay and lesbian Californians comes down between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday.

Not that Daly's offices would be open to know the difference.

Orange County couples can schlep over to LA County and wed, say La-La Land officials.

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