A Virginia state court has allowed two gay couples to hyphenate their last names after previously rejecting both petitions as fraudulent.
Michael Dye and Brian Justice, who are legally married in Iowa, asked the Washington County Circuit Court to change their last names to Dye-Justice. They were initially turned down by Circuit Court Judge C. Randall Lowe on the basis of fraud.
“The judge originally said that because these two individuals want to share the last name, they are putting themselves forth as being married,” said Kent Willis, executive director of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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FORMER High Court judge Michael Kirby says he longs for the day when gay marriage is legal but he and his partner Johan van Vloten probably wouldn’t tie the knot. Mr Kirby, whose biography Michael Kirby – Paradoxes and Principles by law academic Professor AJ Brown has just been released, said he would love to live to see the day where a leader of the country declared this a matter of the rights of citizens to equality.
