Within two hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Georgia’s attorney general issued a memo to state agencies and department heads requiring the state to recognize same-sex marriage “in the same way it recognizes marriage between a man and a woman.”
Attorney General Sam Olens said that the state’s local governments are now constitutionally required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, to issue those licenses in the same way and via the same procedures employed for all other applicants, and to recognize same-sex marriages on an equal footing with all other marriages.
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