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https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/26/map-where-gay-americans-can-now-marry/?tid=sm_fb
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)That would be awesome! I bet the HRC will do something like that
William769
(55,150 posts)Well a nicer shade of Gay blue.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)pinto
(106,886 posts)+1
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)couples.
I suspect Roy Moore will issue a similar order in Alabama.
The battlefield war is won, the guerrilla war has begun.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)President Kennedy had to federalize the National Guard during the civil rights conflicts of the early 1960s. President Obama may have to order federal troops to arrest the Texas AG. Probably won't happen, but probably should happen.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)whether clerks are paying him any attention.
It's easy to make bold pronouncements before something becomes law.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)having a fit about the SCOTUS ruling. Nothing on him advising clerks to stop issuing licenses other than the piece I found.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)"Tarrant County quickly moved to issue same-sex marriage licenses Friday.
In Dallas County, officials began issuing same-sex marriage licenses, extending regular working hours and judges worked to waive the waiting period so couples could marry the same day.
Licenses were being issued, and marriages were performed, across the state.
In Houston, the county clerk initially put the brakes on the issuance of licenses, saying he needed state approval, only to change course within hours."
cerealspiller
(3 posts)Travis County (home of Austin) began issuing licenses to same-sex couples today at 10:30 am. Other counties await instruction...
morningfog
(18,115 posts)But on Friday, Paxton said in the headline of his statement that the state would be "following high courts flawed ruling."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ken-paxton-texas-gay-marriage
As expected, it was all bluster.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)That map seems to represent a country, or nation if you prefer, where the citizens all regard themselves as part of the same group, where inclusion and acceptance are important, where citizens treats each with respec... Hey! Wait a second! That's a map of the United States! OK, I guess we're not there, yet, but we're closer today, aren't we?
Krytan11c
(271 posts)ALL Americans the way it should have always been.
dmr
(28,364 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Thank you for sharing!
What a great day this is!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)irisblue
(33,054 posts)Takket
(21,702 posts)[link:|
mmonk
(52,589 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)democrank
(11,112 posts)~PEACE~
yuiyoshida
(41,871 posts)nice!
Hekate
(91,005 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)rocktivity
(44,585 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)The results will be the same.
rocktivity
(44,585 posts)the Council of Conservative Citizens was born...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026872573
rocktivity
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Im not sure they're allowing licenses yet...
morningfog
(18,115 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for contempt of court.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/06/when_can_same-sex_couples_get.html
Some of the 67 counties in Ala. will no longer perform civil marriages for anyone...
that was the decision of our county also, the Probate Judges refuse to marry gays, and now straight couples.
You can get a license from the courthouse, but unless you can find a pastor to perform the deed, you can't arry in the county.
Other counties esp. those with cities ( Birmingham, Montgomery, etc) will provide civil marriages to everyone,
and some pastors will.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)to get the SCOTUS ruling enforced.
Judge Johnson was the hardass federal judge who made sure desegregation was ENFORCED in Alabama.
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr. (October 30, 1918 July 23, 1999) was a United States Federal judge, serving 1955 to 1999 at the District and Appeals Court levels. He made landmark civil rights rulings that helped end segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South. In the words of journalist and historian Bill Moyers, Judge Johnson "altered forever the face of the South.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Minis_Johnson
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)its going to take some enforcers and Judge Roy Moore is not that guy..
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)JACKSON, Mississippi Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has released the following statement regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Courts decision is not effective immediately in Mississippi.
It will become effective in Mississippi, and circuit clerks will be required to issue same-sex marriage licenses, when the 5th Circuit lifts the stay of Judge Reeves order.
This could come quickly or may take several days.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)rurallib
(62,478 posts)JACKSON, Miss. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has released the following statement regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Courts decision is not effective immediately in Mississippi.
It will become effective in Mississippi, and circuit clerks will be required to issue same-sex marriage licenses, when the 5th Circuit lifts the stay of Judge Reeves order.
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The 5th Circuit might also choose not to lift the stay and instead issue and order, which could take considerably longer before it becomes effective.
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The courts ruling on Friday means the remaining 14 states, in the South and Midwest, will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage.
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The train is a-rollin' down the track
JI7
(89,287 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)rurallib
(62,478 posts)Canada, the US and Mexico all sanction gay marriage.
That's about all the countries there are on the continent.
TBF
(32,139 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Almost a century later ... The fight ain't over.
We MUST stay on it!
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)Ginsburg, Scalia and Thomas aren't getting any younger. Just some food for thought....
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I'm so happy that it finally happened.
nikto
(3,284 posts)To crank up the intensity on issues like guns, Pledge Of Allegiance,
and other areas of "rights" they consider important.
Wow--No "Gay" issues anymore? If so,
This removes an entire line-of-defense from the Right's arsenal.
Look out for compensation in the media --FOX, especially (i.e. on-air conversations will switch to new emotionally-tinged topics to keep the rightwing properly inflamed and united).
It has to happen.
Rightwingers must be kept angry, in order to keep the political rightwing unified and effective.
The elites clearly need this to be maintained.
New issues, presumably loaded with hot emotions, must, and will, be inserted into the American dialog, just to keep the wingnuts screaming and ranting, which is their programmed role.