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Contents:

• ALABAMA JUDGE DEFI GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS
• MEET THE ALABAMA JUDG WHO REFE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS – GAY OR STRAIGHT
• ALABAMA'S 'TEN COMMANDMENTS JUDGE' DEFI THE FEDS OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ALABAMA DPE TOP JUDGE'S ORR
• ALABAMA JUDGE FAC ETHICS COMPLAT FOR GAY MARRIAGE LETTER
• JUDGE STRIK DOWN ALABAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• ROY MOORE, ALABAMA JUDGE, SPEND OVER GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• FERAL JUDGE: ALABAMA JUDG MT ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS
• ALABAMA SUPREME COURT REF CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE
• ALABAMA HALTS GAY MARRIAG AFTER RULG
• IN LOVE AND SPERATE TO MARRY: GAY ALABAMA UPLE NIED BY A JUDG' REVOLT
• ALABAMA PROBATE JUDG SHOULD OBEY US SUPREME COURT ON GAY MARRIAGE, FERAL PROSECUTORS SAY

ALABAMA JUDGE DEFI GAY MARRIAGE LAW

Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court on Sunday night orred the state’s probate judg not to issue marriage licens to gay upl on Monday, the day same-sex marriag were expected to beg here.

”Reached by telephone late Sunday night, Ben Cooper, chairman of the board of the gay rights group Equaly Alabama, said that same-sex upl expected to be issued marriage licens Monday morng. Cooper, who add that he expected legal actns to be filed agast the dividual probate judg if they do not issue the judg across the state had already signaled they would do nothg to aid gay upl and, some stanc, any upl.

GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS

Kg, a probate judge Jefferson County, said last chief jtice’s misgivgs speak to wispread ncerns here about feral overreach and same-sex marriage Alabama, where about 81 percent of voters 2006 supported a nstutnal amendment banng gay nuptials. In Geneva County, Judge Fred Hamic said Wednday he would issue licens to gay upl but that they would have to go somewhere else to wed. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Judge Defi Gay Marriage Law.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTViotranscripttranscriptGay Weddgs Held Parts of AlabamaSame-sex upl wed Birmgham on the first day that Alabama issued same-sex marriage licens. SOUNDBITE (English) Jam Dansby, Gay marriage opponent:. — Dpe a feral judge’s lgs legalizg same-sex marriage, most probate judg Alabama on Monday refed to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl, latg a legal showdown that echoed the battl over segregatn here the 1960s.

MEET THE ALABAMA JUDG WHO REFE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS – GAY OR STRAIGHT

Although urt officials some of the state’s largt ci — cludg Birmgham, Huntsville and Montgomery — quickly issued marriage licens to same-sex upl, up to 52 of Alabama’s 67 unti, acrdg to the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, cled to procs the required was unclear how many of the judg were actg out of overt fiance and how many were simply weighg how to navigate a hly jumbled legal landspe after Chief Jtice Roy S. Tori Sisson, left, and Shante Wolfe after beg married Montgomery Ala., where same-sex marriag went forward after the Uned Stat Supreme Court nied the Alabama attorney general’s requt to further lay a lg that overturned the state’s ban on gay Anrson/Associated PrsSli 1 of 8 Tori Sisson, left, and Shante Wolfe after beg married Montgomery Ala., where same-sex marriag went forward after the Uned Stat Supreme Court nied the Alabama attorney general’s requt to further lay a lg that overturned the state’s ban on gay Anrson/Associated PrsTo some, cludg Jtice Clarence Thomas, who offered a spired dissent, the failure to orr a stay was the strongt signal to date that the urt is likely to tablish a natnwi right to same-sex marriage. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Marriage Alabama Begs, but Only Parts.

Kay Ivey for her several years a few nservative probate judg Alabama have refed to issue marriage licens to anyone so they don't have to issue them to gay and lbian Hoe of Reprentativ voted 67-26 for the bill that would replace marriage licens wh a new form lled a marriage certifite.

ALABAMA'S 'TEN COMMANDMENTS JUDGE' DEFI THE FEDS OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Greg Albrton, the sponsor of the bill, said he proposed the change so people n obta marriage documents every Neil Rafferty, the only openly gay member of the Hoe, said the proposal was "born out of prejudice. Current Alabama law says probate judg "may" issue marriage, but don't force them to do same-sex upl obtaed the legal right to marry, about a half dozen of Alabama's 68 probate judg cled to issue licens so they would not have to give them to gay W Allen, a Republin om Pike County, was one of the judg who ma that cisn.

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GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ALABAMA DPE TOP JUDGE'S ORR

Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court said Thursday that there was nfn about the feral lg on gay marriage, so he stcted unti to stop issug marriage licens to same-sex upl.

Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court said Thursday that there was nfn about the feral lg on gay marriage, so he stcted unti to stop issug marriage licens to same-sex Haller for The New York TimIn a jot statement late Wednday, the Uned Stat attorneys Birmgham and Mobile said they had “grave ncerns” about the chief jtice’s orr. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 14 of the New York edn wh the headle: Alabama Judge Orrs a Halt to Gay Marriag.

ALABAMA JUDGE FAC ETHICS COMPLAT FOR GAY MARRIAGE LETTER

Photograph: Rose HackmanAbsent his sermon was any mentn of slavery, or the mass slayg of Native Amerins (although one acknowledgement of the latter group’s fate was later found his office, where a poster featurg Native Amerins sarstilly stat: “Turn your weapons, the ernment will take re of you”) the sermon me to a close, ngregants were asked if they had any qutns for their gut, and some were fally able to ask the qutns about gay marriage weighg on many of them. But the terror among many here – that relig lears are on track to beg erced to performg ceremoni they do not agree wh – is nversatn that followed centered on vout bs owners wh anti-gay marriage beliefs: what of the florists, the bakers, the photographers asked to provi servic for same-sex weddgs? Anti-gay marriage bs owners refg servic to same-sex upl as they plan their weddgs are ed vulnerable of beg acced of discrimatn, although precents are still beg East Baptist church Alabama.

No marriage licens for heterosexual upl, no marriage licens for gay ’s no law-breakg discrimatn if nobody is allowed to get married at all, the reasong go.

Photograph: Christiane RobsonA uple days after liverg his sermon Woodland, standg his office Montgomery, 70-year-old pastor Eidsmoe tells me he is worried for his three adult children, who are currently keepg their opns about gay marriage to themselv wh profsnal circl. There is no difference between a baker Arizona refg to serve gay people and whe people refg to serve black people rtrants after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, ” he says.

JUDGE STRIK DOWN ALABAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Brady Lasser, a 25-year-old Alabaman and ary traee, preach a msage of love, but still am homosexualy as sful, fdg “fivable” – on a par wh other says gay people serve support and should not be judged.

And the same go for homosexualy. ”Lasser’s church has groups for people alg wh homosexualy, he says.

ROY MOORE, ALABAMA JUDGE, SPEND OVER GAY MARRIAGE STANCE

But if homosexualy is fivable, same-sex marriage still seems to be, for him, “crossg the le”. On Sunday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Jtice Roy Moore told the state’s probate judg not to issue marriage licens to gay upl, an orr fyg a lg last month by a feral judge that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unnstutnal.

His latt attempts to ignore feral orrs and block the state om handg out marriage licens to gay upl, while extraordary for other jtic, is natural for a judge wh a history of judicial fiance. Lol officials Alabama began issug marriage licens for same-sex upl Monday, after the state’s top judge set up a high-stak legal showdown wh a feral urt when he orred lol judg not to ply wh a lg legalizg gay marriage the state. MORE: Gay Marriage and the Law of the Land Moore wrote that his orr protects both the U.

A civil rights group on Wednday filed a judicial ethics plat agast Alabama’s ntroversial Supreme Court Chief Jtice, Roy Moore, sayg his ments urgg judg to disregard a recent lg strikg down the state’s gay marriage ban were “enuragg lawlsns. ”Excludg Alabama, 36 stat, pl the District of Columbia, allow gay men and lbians to wed.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

The Supreme Court said mid-January that would hear a challenge om four stat to same-sex marriage bans, wh many experts predictg that the natn's hight urt will fally settle the gay marriage qutn -- In this Oct.

(AP Photo/Dave Mart)Dave Mart / APIN-DEPTHSame-Sex Marriage on Hold Temporarily Alabama: JudgeAlabama's Top Judge: Gay Marriage Rulgs Are Feral 'Tyranny'. Grana, led that Alabama's nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, known as the Sancty of Marriage Amendment, vlat the 14th Amendment's due procs and equal protectn cls.

FERAL JUDGE: ALABAMA JUDG MT ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS

Referrg to a transgenr activist Alabama, Chief Jtice Moore said the missn had “chosen to listen to people like Ambrosia Starlg, a profsed transvte, and other gay, lbian and bisexual dividuals, as well as anizatns which support their agenda. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.

Further plitg the issue, Davis’ attorney said, is the fact that the Alabama Policy Group and the Alabama Cizens Actn program have filed a lawsu on Wednday that would stop Alabama probate judg om issug licens to gay upl. “If necsary, gay and lbian upl will hl ristg judg to urt and the end rult will be the same: a feral orr requirg those judg to issue marriage licens. Supreme Court lg that effectively legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, cuttg off a nservative bid to prevent gay weddgs the urt issued a one-sentence orr dismissg a challenge by a probate judge and a nservative policy group that wanted the state to bar gay marriage spe the landmark feral one of several wrten opns acpanyg the orr, Jtice Greg Shaw lled the cisn a "clear refal" to ignore the Supreme Court lg last June.

Several other state jtic railed agast the high urt's lg while notg they n't overturn Jtice Roy Moore, a Christian nservative who has repeatedly spoken out agast same-sex unns, wrote that prev state orrs barrg gay marriage Alabama rema. Most probate judg already are ignorg that directive, however, and hundreds of same-sex upl already have wed Johnston, an attorney for the Alabama Policy Instute, which went to urt seekg to prevent more gay marriag Alabama, said the cisn left opponents nowhere to turn the urt system. Randall Marshall, legal director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of Alabama, said that while some of Alabama's 67 unti qu issug marriage licens pletely, none was issug licens to straight upl while nyg licens to gay upl.

ALABAMA SUPREME COURT REF CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE

" He referred to homosexualy as a "disgrace to human nature" which n't be pared to oppose-sex timacy. Jtice Tom Parker said the cisn which the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for gay marriage natnally meant "the le of law is ad. — The curta abptly fell Wednday on Alabama’s brief experiment same-sex the state, all 48 unty probate offic that had been issug marriage licens to same-sex upl cid they uld no longer do so, acrdg to a survey by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group.

ALABAMA HALTS GAY MARRIAG AFTER RULG

The night before, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a lg orrg the probate judg to ply wh an existg state ban on same-sex marriage — even though the ban had been led unnstutnal by a Feral District Court 134-page lg on Tuday, rid by gay rights supporters and cheered by opponents, once aga phed this nservative state to nfg and largely uncharted legal terrory, raisg plex qutns of state and judicial thory even as officials grappled wh one of the most cendiary civil rights qutns of the day. ” The shift fortun for same-sex upl was pecially noticeable Birmgham, Alabama’s largt cy, where ls than a month ago gay rights supporters held a celebratory news nference on the steps of the unty urthoe. ” But many probate judg fied his orr, and gay upl were allowed to wed much of the nservative groups, the Alabama Policy Instute and the Alabama Cizens Actn Program, filed a petn wh the State Supreme Court askg to halt same-sex a telephone terview, Mr.

Cooper, a Birmgham lawyer, said gay rights supporters were “workg on a strategy now to overe what has occurred, ” and he predicted “signifint ligatn.

IN LOVE AND SPERATE TO MARRY: GAY ALABAMA UPLE NIED BY A JUDG' REVOLT

” He cled to say how quickly same-sex marriage supporters might return to analysts and lawyers for gay rights groups said challeng uld take var forms.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Alabama Halts Gay Marriag After Rulg. Keh Ingram is no stranger to the daily hostily faced by gay people the ep south. He was termed wh his partner, Albert Pigg, 21, to be the first gay uple the state to be married after the US supreme urt refed jt hours earlier to halt same-sex marriag the assumed would now be a formaly, and they would immently be married.

“He said to that he had to see somethg om a higher urt ‘pass through his sk’ before he accepted gay marriag, tellg that a feral judge’s opn didn’t apply to him and sayg he hadn’t heard anythg about the supreme urt lg. The refenik judg have turned away same-sex upl, havg been enuraged to openly fy the natn’s hight urt by the state’s own supreme urt chief jtice, Roy Sunday night he issued an edict to probate judg Alabama orrg them to rist issug marriage licens to gay upl.

ALABAMA PROBATE JUDG SHOULD OBEY US SUPREME COURT ON GAY MARRIAGE, FERAL PROSECUTORS SAY

”“Growg up the south beg gay is hard. Last month he qu his job a petrolm pany after his supervisors began makg anti-gay slurs, sayg that he was not “man enough to do that task – he mt be a faggot” knows to be reful when gog to a bar (there are no gay bars Dothan after the only one closed recently) or when walkg down the street wh his partner who om Florida and wasn’t ed to such circumspectn public. He’s often heard pastors his church g the word “fag” on the pulp and talkg about gay people as “livg eternal s”’s Christian himself, and says blsgs at the dner table, but se the difference as beg that “we have a more open attu towards love” the probate judge standoff began, there has been a wellg up of open aggrsn towards gay people that has taken the anger to a more ser level.

“There are a lot of people ready to fight agast our rights to gay marriage, ” he the longer term, though, he remas hopeful and optimistic. He believ the US supreme urt will le favor of same-sex marriage natnally when addrs the issue later this his own life, he has found a new job at a ll center pany that offers full protectns agast discrimatn to gay employe. What you need to know about the gay rights movement.

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