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Alabama Chief Justice says he’ll defy a Supreme Court ruling for same-sex marriage
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore said Sunday that if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, he would defy the ruling because it would alter God’s “organic law.”
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Marriage News Watch: February 16, 2015
Things are finally settling down in Alabama. We’ll take a look at just how messy it got last week, and what happens now. Plus, Justice Ginsburg makes some pretty candid predictions for the Supreme Court’s upcoming marriage decision.
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Alabama same-sex marriage fight echoes states’ rights battles
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s judicial building office overlooks Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue, a history-soaked thoroughfare topped by the Alabama Capitol where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated president of the Confederacy and where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ended the 1965 march for voting rights.
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Alabama Supreme Court to consider petition to stop to same-sex marriages
The Alabama Supreme Court late Friday agreed to consider a petition by two conservative groups seeking a halt to the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses by state probate judges.
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Alabama’s stand against same-sex marriage crumbles as more counties comply with federal ruling
Alabama’s stand against same-sex marriage crumbled Friday as judges in most counties sided with federal courts rather than their own chief justice, a Republican who once called homosexuality an inherent evil.
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Federal judge orders Mobile County to issue same-sex marriage licenses
The federal judge who overturned Alabama’s gay marriage ban ordered a defiant Mobile County judge to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, signaling to probate judges across the state that they should do the same.
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Alabama same-sex couples head back to court to fight for marriage licenses
With many Alabama counties still refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, the federal judge who overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriages will hear arguments Thursday that could provide clarity to what has become a confusing, unsettled issue.
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo grills Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on same-sex marriage
CNN’s Chris Cuomo grills Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Thursday on the subject of same-sex marriage in Alabama, and his order to state probate judges to defy a federal court ruling.
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Confusion reigns over same-sex marriage in Alabama
Confusion reigns in Alabama over same-sex marriage, days after the first same-sex wedding licenses were issued in the Deep South state. Probate judges say it’s been a bewildering week of conflicting signals whether to issue those licenses or not.
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Groups ask Alabama Supreme Court to stop to same-sex marriages
Two conservative groups filed a request Wednesday asking the Alabama Supreme Court to order state probate judges to stop giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples.