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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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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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Alabama begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
Alabama became the 37th U.S. state with marriage equality as same-sex couples there began getting married in a handful of counties on Monday, despite an 11th-hour attempt from the state’s chief justice – an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage – to block the weddings.
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Alabama chief justice orders judges to refuse to issue same‑sex marriage licenses
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore late Sunday ordered all probate judges and employees in Alabama to follow existing state law and not issue or recognize same-sex marriages.
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Alabama chief justice tells judges they don’t have to issue gay marriage licenses
Alabama’s chief justice is telling probate judges that they are not required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a federal judge’s decision overturning the state’s gay marriage ban.
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Marriage News Watch: February 2, 2015
Marriage could be starting next week in Alabama – anti-gay officials are saying that they don’t have to let gay couples get married, but their reasoning isn’t exactly what you would call true.
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Legal group files judicial ethics complaint against Alabama chief justice
The complaint to Alabama’s Judicial Inquiry Commission stems from Roy Moore’s criticism of a federal judge’s ruling in favor of a Mobile couple in a same-sex marriage. Moore called it “judicial tyranny.”
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Alabama chief justice criticizes same-sex marriage ruling
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he’s concerned that the recognition of same-sex marriages will lead to the recognition of marriages with multiple partners or marriages within a family.
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Mother who opposed her deceased son’s same-sex marriage intervenes in lawsuit
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The mother of an accident victim is now involved in a federal lawsuit filed by his same-sex partner, who is trying to overturn Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage.