Cass County Sheriff’s Sergeant: ND Disrespectful to Supreme Court?

A Cass County Sheriff’s Sergeant is urging the state to change the constitution and state laws about gay marriage.

Gail Wischmann of Fargo told the Legislature’s interim Judiciary Committee that if the state does not change its constitution and statutes “it’s almost like we’re thumbing our nose at the Supreme Court decision.”

The court in June declared same-sex couples have the right to marry nationwide.

A federal judge shortly after ruled North Dakota’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional and invalid.

Wischmann married her partner last month.

In North Dakota, 75 marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples since June.