Gov. Jerry Brown's office ordering counties to resume gay marriage

Sources in Gov. Jerry Brown's office said it will immediately issue a letter to the Department of Public Health, ordering counties to allow same-sex marriages, after a stay was lifted. The Los Angeles County Clerk-Recorder said Friday that it would resume issuing marriage licenses for same-sex weddings as soon as it received official word from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court lifted its stay on an injunction that ordered state officials to stop enforcing California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. With the court's action, counties can now begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses. A spokesman for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had originally said it would takes...