TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Court clerks in six Oklahoma counties say the pace of same-sex couples requesting marriage licenses has slowed a bit a day after gay marriage became legal in the state.
Clerks in several counties briefly surveyed by phone Tuesday by The Associated Press also reported no instances where same-sex couples were turned away.
About 120 or so licenses in the state's largest counties in Oklahoma City and Tulsa had been issued by Tuesday, but that figure included applications from both gay and straight couples. No glitches were reported in Cimarron, Cleveland, Pittsburg or Ottawa counties.
Same-sex marriage became legal in Oklahoma on Monday, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up appeals from five states seeking to preserve bans on the issuing of same-sex licenses.