MARRIAGE CLERKS GETTING PRE-WEDDING JITTERS: From the Boston Herald

While lawmakers scratch their heads after the Supreme Judicial Court's opinion shooting down civil unions as a possible resolution to the gay marriage debate, city and town clerks are patiently waiting for someone to tell them what to do after May 17.

"We know nothing,'' said Barnstable Town Clerk Linda Hutchenrider, president of the Massachusetts Town Clerks Association. "We're in a holding pattern. We just have to wait and see.' ...

...[Massachusetts Department of Public Health] Spokeswoman Roseanne Pawelec declined to say whether town clerks should issue marriage
licenses to same-sex couples after the deadline, citing the possibility of unspecified political "twists and turns.''

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