At 2PM today, in a decree coming from the Johnson County Kansas courts, the directive was given to clerks in that office to issue marriage licenses to all without discrimination toward gender.

This is a first - as many throughout the state have been applying, and been turned down in Lyon, Reno and other counties. Johnson County courts, however, have decided this issue is one that they will not continue to protest, and as of this afternoon, the Johnson County Courthouse - a location where Derek Schmidt and Sam Brownback stood yesterday in a video captured in this blog, noted that the would fight gay marriage.