By JERI CLAUSING and RUSSELL CONTRERAS
CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO TUESDAY, NOT MONDAY – Jena and Nan Masland, both 35, join dozens of same-sex couple lining up outside the Albuquerque clerk’s office Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013,in New Mexico’s most populous county before officials started issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The Bernalillo County Clerk joined clerks from the state’s other two population centers in recognizing same-sex unions after a judge Monday declared gay marriage legal in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two more New Mexico counties say they’ll begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The clerks in San Miguel and Valencia counties say they’ve ordered gender-neutral forms so they can follow the state’s three population centers in recognizing gay and lesbian marriages.
The decisions come a day after a state district judge in Albuquerque declared gay marriage legal, and ordered the Bernalillo County clerk to join Santa Fe and Dona Ana counties in issuing the licenses.
More than 100 people were lined up for the licenses in Albuquerque Tuesday morning, and a mass wedding was planned at noon at Civic Plaza.
