Following last Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, most county clerks here in Texas began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. But many of those happy couples couldn’t immediately tie-the-knot. Texas requires couples to wait 72-hours after obtaining their license before they can say “I do.”* About half the States have such waiting periods which range from 24 hours to six days. One source describes the wait time as providing:
“a cooling-off period for the couple to determine if they truly wish to be married.”
So if a cooling off period is a good idea for matrimony, I’m stumped why there’s…
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