BuzzFeed - Judge puts clerks on notice that if they don't start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples next week he is prepared to order them to do so. Patrick Gibbons, left, and Aaron Vargas attend a rally to show support in in Wilton Manors, Fla., for a judge's ruling allowing gay people to marry on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Getty Images The federal judge overseeing the challenge to Florida's marriage equality ban ruled on Thursday that his current injunction applies only to the couples who sued to be able to marry â but noted that any other couples who are refused licenses beginning on Jan. 6 could ask to be added to the case. The "clarification" order came about when the clerk of Washington County asked U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle whether the current injunction requires licenses be issued to all same-sex couples who seek them or just the plaintiffs in the case. "[N]o plaintiff now in this case has standing to seek a preliminary injunction requiring th
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