This is quick, not even a diary, but to get word out. I was voting my absentee ballot this morning and saw that the Oklahoma County Democratic Primary Ballot also included 2 county court clerk candidates. Since my great Aunt Rosa Hines was a county court clerk for years, I have always been hyper-interested in these offices. So I quickly googled to see where these individuals stood.
I quickly found an article in The Oklahoma Gayly — there was a blast from the past AND the following info:
Senator Anastasia Pittman, while serving as a Representative for Oklahoma voted “Yea” in April, 2013 on the Resolution which affirmed the ban on marriage in our state. The resolution was based at the time on a nine-year-old vote of the people, backed by a statement calling such law a “power of the state,” and supporting the discriminatory DOMA law.
We called Senator Pittman for a statement and sent her an email requesting a comment. After one week she had not responded to our request.
Charles Gray is her Democratic opponent who said in an exclusive interview with The Gayly, “The Supreme Court has spoken and it’s the Court Clerk’s job to follow the law and the law says you are to issue a marriage license. They are going to get a license through my office if I am elected.
“If you want to marry someone, you ought to be able to marry them. The government has enough to do without getting in our business on matters like this.” He added “Those Representatives are pretty good about saying they want to stay out of your business but they don’t.” (Gray was a legislator until 2002).
So I think that this is a big deal if you are in Oklahoma County.