Alabama county halts all marriages after same-sex ruling

[Cryptoad]

Source: ap

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The probate office in one of Alabama's biggest counties said Wednesday that it will quit issuing marriage licenses to anyone after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is legal despite a federal court's decision to the contrary.

The all-Republican Supreme Court sided with a pair of conservative groups Tuesday night and ordered Alabama's 68 probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

A previous ruling by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade that gay-marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution does not preclude the judges from following state law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, the court ruled.

The probate court in Mobile, which Granade previously ordered to issue same-sex licenses, posted a notice on its website Wednesday saying it would quit issuing marriage licenses to anyone while reviewing the decision.

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[Romeo.lima333]

1. alabamastan

[stone space]

2. Scorched Earth Politics. Should make them really popular with wouldbe newlyweds. (nt)

[RKP5637]

3. Homophobia and Bigotry, ain't that a wonderful combination! Wrong for 200 years

and intent on staying that way. What's next, ignore the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Backward is backward, can't take the backwardness out of backward.

[Cryptoad]

5. Anybody got a office kitty on which will be ,,,

the last State banning Gay Marriage?....... put me a hundred on Alabama , i believe they have the fortitude to go all the way

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, they have a history of loving persecution, well versed and eager to continue. After all,

they've got a reputation to uphold and to be proud of! Wrong for 200 years, why change now, wrong must just seem a really good thing/heritage to TPTB in Alabama.

[android fan]

4. In blatant disregard of the Federal Courts

who overrides the Alabama Morons that are Pretending to be Justices.

[RKP5637]

7. Guess they're just holding out for the federal troops to arrive. That seems to be

the mentality of the cretin Justices who make a mockery of the word justice.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Piling on:

Madison County stops same-sex marriage licenses, says 'we don't know' if earlier marriages legal

[Cryptoad]

10. Does this mean that

those you were earlier married are now as they say in Alabama, "living in Sin"?

[DeadLetterOffice]

11. Offs...

My new favorite response:
#

[lark]

12. Assholabama at it again.

[android fan]

13. Rename Alabama

to Obama...

And watch the citizens freak out....

[d_legendary1]

14. Apparently Alabama believes that discrimination is a state's right issue.