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Alabama’s only openly gay lawmaker named director of local HRC chapter
Democratic state Rep. Patricia Todd of Birmingham was introduced Friday as the new state director of the Human Rights Campaign in Alabama.
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At least 545 same-sex couples married in Alabama, state reports
The preliminary numbers were compiled by the Alabama Department of Public Health Department. The tally reflects marriages that occurred Feb. 9 to March 3.
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Alabama AG files Supreme Court brief defending states’ same-sex marriage ban
Alabama’s attorney general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to leave in place a lower court’s decision letting several states continue defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman.
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Marriage News Watch: March 30, 2015
Texas has won the right to have gays and lesbians fired for taking medical leave. The state’s also working on a sneaky work-around to stop marriage equality, just in case the Supreme Court overturns the state’s ban.
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Alabama bill would allow adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples
The bill would also prohibit the state from refusing to license, or renew a contract with, the groups for refusing services to people on religious grounds.
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Roy Moore: ‘No court has authority to redefine what God proposed in Genesis’
“Nothing in the Constitution of the United States, nothing in the laws or precedence of the federal courts give federal courts any authority over domestic policy of family and marriage…”
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Marriage News Watch: March 23, 2015
It’s been nearly two months since marriage was supposed to start in Alabama, and the state still doesn’t have its act together, and Texas has filed a lawsuit to prevent married same-sex couples from taking family medical leave.
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Alabama probate judge asks court to amend same-sex marriage order
Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed said it’s important the state not engage in “foot dragging” regarding constitutional rights.
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Ala. governor calls same-sex marriage a ‘social experiment’ in court brief
Gov. Robert Bentley filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of April arguments describing same-sex marriage as social experiment that undermines the rights of children.
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Federal judge won’t stay order in Alabama same-sex marriage case
A federal judge is not backing off her order to an Alabama probate judge that he must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.