BREAKING: State Judge Rules Missouri's Gay Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional, No Stay Has Been Issued, For Now Ruling Only Applies In City Of St. Louis

Via the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

Denying Missouri's gay couples the opportunity to marry is unconstitutional, a judge ruled this afternoon. As a result, St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison said in his decision, marriage licenses can be issued. "The Court finds and declares that any same sex couple that satisfies all the requirements for marriage under Missouri law, other than being of different sexes, is legally entitled to a marriage license," Burlison wrote. He said that the Missouri Constitution violates the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Burlison's ruling comes more than four months after four couples were married at St. Louis City Hall, even though there is a 10-year-old constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

Read the ruling, which apparently only applies to St. Louis for now.

UPDATE: From the office of the mayor.