Amidst court battles same sex couples exercise new status in Wisconsin

Today is the first day that same sex couples in Nevada can sign up for a domestic partner registry. They´ll begin to get certificates after October 1st, when a new law legalizing those partnerships goes into effect.  

Nevada, along with Wisconsin, are two states in which voters approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, but now the state legislatures have approved domestic partnerships as an alternative that grants couples some of the rights that are
given to married couples.

Wisconsin’s domestic partners registry went into effect earlier this month and as couples begin to exercise their newly recognized status, both the registry and that state´s 2006 gay marriage ban are being challenged in court.  FSRN´s Andrew Stelzer has the story.