• Technically/legally civil marriage equality has been in effect at the state level since November 2014. (Same-sex couples may legally marry statewide.) 
• Civil marriage equality cannot legally be denied at the state level, via the Supreme Court of the United States, as of 26 June 2015. (Same-sex couples have the legal right to marry.)
• 7 July 2015, woot! State of Kansas Recognizes Same-Sex Marriages - From Equality Kansas<
• On 26 June 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled FOR marriage equality and that same-gender couples have the constitutional right to marry in all 50 states and all U.S. territories.
  • MARRIAGE EQUALITY FAQ
  • If a marriage license is refused to you, please contact one of the following legal organizations immediately!
    
    ACLU
    https://www.aclu.org/about/affiliates?redirect=affiliates
    212.549.2500 

    GLAD
    http://www.GLADAnswers.org/
    617.426.1350

    Lambda Legal
    http://www.lambdalegal.org/marriage-equality-tracker
    212.809.8585

    NCLR
    http://www.nclrights.org/legal-help
    415.392.6257

• Equality Kansas is providing information from individual counties as marriage equality comes to the state. Check for status updates on Facebook and Twitter. 
• 9 February 2015, Marriage Update from Equality Kansas showing counties where licenses are, or are not, being issued to same-sex couples.
• 10 February 2015, talk about regression! Brownback rescinds executive order that offered protections on basis of sexual orientation - Then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, signed order in 2007 - By Jonathan Shorman, The Topeka Capitol Journal/cjonline.com

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• The state's Romeo and Juliet law, that assigned harsher sentences in statutory rape cases where the parties were of the same sex, was invalidated by the 2003 SCOTUS ruling in Lawrence v.Texas.
• Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions from 2005 to 2014, per Proposed Amendment 1.
• Kansas is the home of the Planting Peace Equality House in Topeka.
• Kansas House Bill 2453, the Religious Freedom Act, was legislation proposed in the state of Kansas in January 2014 that would have allowed people to refuse to provide services in any way related to any relationship (same-sex or otherwise) under the name "marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement" if their objection to doing so was based on their self-proclaimed religious beliefs. The bill passed the House, but on 19 February 2014, Senator Jeff King (R-Independence), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said his committee would not consider the legislation, ending its consideration.
• SCOTUS denied cert in Oklahoma's Bishop and Utah's Kitchen on 6 October 2014, which left the 10th Circuit's prior rulings in those cases as valid. Kansas is also covered by the 10th Circuit, therefore binding precedent was established for Kansas.
• 4 November 2014, U.S. Federal District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled for marriage equality by granting the plaintiffs'request for a preliminary injunction in Marie v. Moser (under LAWSUITS-PENDING below).
• 17 November 2014, Kansas has 105 counties, but only a handful are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples - By Hunter Schwarz, The Washington Post
• 17 November 2014, Chief Judge A.J. Wachter issued an order covering the 11th Judicial District of Cherokee, Crawford and Labette counties in Kansas - AP, LGBTQNATION
• 18 November 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court lifted the temporary stay that blocked issuance of marriage licenses in Johnson County. Woot! See State of Kansas v. Moriarty under LAWSUITS-PENDING below.