Wash. Supreme Court to Rule on Gay Marriage Law
By Curt Woodward
Associated Press Writer
Wed, Jul. 26 2006

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The state Supreme Court announced it would issue a long-awaited ruling Wednesday in a case that could make Washington only the second state to allow gay ''marriage.''

The brief announcement gave no indication of which way the high court would lean.

If it overturns the state's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act, Washington would join Massachusetts as the only states to allow gay couples to marry, but unlike Massachusetts, Washington's marriage licenses don't require recipients to live in the state. story