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"Issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples has crossed her mind before, but Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said she doesn't want it to backfire.\"I'm really weary of that,\" Oliver said, \"I would hate for folks to think they're married, and then come to find out that they're not in fact married. I think that would be the wrong course to take.\"Oliver said people have been calling the clerk's office, to see if she'll be doing what the Dona Ana County Clerk has done.\u00A0But the answer is no, because she wants to the judicial process to take its course\"What I'm telling folks, and what I want them to understand, is that we are the subject of a lawsuit right now on this matter,\" Oliver said.\u00A0In March, two lesbian couples filed suit against Toulouse after she refused to issue them marriage licenses.\u00A0Wednesday afternoon, a third couple, joined the lawsuit.Oliver said she's limited within the confines of the law.\"I am personally in favor of gay marriage,\" she said. \"I look forward to the day that we can issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in Bernalillo County.\"Oliver said she's encouraged to hear that Attorney General Gary King doesn't plan to stop what's going on in Las Cruces, and hopes that's a sign a resolution will happen soon.\"I know that the couples want that, I certainly want that, it appears that's what the AG's office wants as well, and so hopefully that's what will take place,\" she said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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