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Gay couples married in Wis. face uncertainty
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By Carrie Antlfinger Associated Press Writer MILWAUKEE - A federal judge's order for Wisconsin officials to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses didn't address the legal status of the more than 550 gay marriages conducted in the last week, and subsequent statements by state officials have not removed the uncertainty. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on June 6 ordered county clerks to stop enforcing the state's gay marriage ban but she put that ruling on hold Friday while an appeal from Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is pending. "It hurts, you know," Lisa Akey said after the ruling Friday, a day after she married her partner of 16 years in Marathon County.