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fedrick@anchor.cs.colorado.edu (Kelvin Fedrick) wrote:
>
> In article <4lh5sm$pq3@lace.colorado.edu>, John Glick <jdg@cdc.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >In article <4l95fa$iq1@linden.fortnet.org> Veronica Kattnig <tmvsk@linden.fortnet.org> writes:
> >>Mike Mills <mills@spot.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
> >>>
       All a heterosexual couple has to do is sign a slip of paper 
> >>> and they are married.  It doesn't even require an agent of the state to 
> >>> be present.
> >>
> >>AND have that slip of paper signed by two witnesses.  AND have a 
> >>person, authorized by the STATE, perform the ceremony.  AND have 
> >>that person sign that paper.  AND, for some of us, supply blood
> >>test results.
> >>
> >>Veronica Kattnig
> >
> >Huh? Last time I checked (and that wasn't long ago, I'm getting married next
> >month) you did not need a blood test to get married in CO and anyone could
> >perform the ceremony. 
> 
> Veronica is badly mistaken,

(snip)
> -kelvin


Really???


I hold in my hand my Marrage License.

The only thing that the Marriage Licence does is confirm that
both parties are of legal age and live in that county.  But it also
states "to any person or religious society _Authorized
by Law_ to Perform the Marriage Ceremony", and then gives 
authorization.  It also must be used in 30 days.

BTW, my blood test results are still attached, but now I find out 
by all of you, so well informed about marriage, that I didn't need it.
Still, it states quite clearly on the results that it is required of
females in Colorado.

On the Certificate, NOT the License, two separate things, a space
for the county, date, place, designation of the official, and some
things about the laws of Colorado, a space for our names, towns, 
and our signatures AND space for TWO witnesses AND the person who 
performed the ceremony to sign AND affix the seal of the official.

At the bottom of the marriage certificate, NOT the marriage license,
it says, "This certificate, duly executed together with 
the License, must be returned by the minister or officer who shall
have solemnized the marriage, to the office of the County Clerk who
issued the same, promptly."

More than just two people signing a piece of paper and mailing it 
back is required.

Veronica Kattnig