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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.

GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS

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. 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.

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

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.

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

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— 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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ALABAMA DPE TOP JUDGE'S ORR

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. ”ViotranscripttranscriptAlabama Blocks Gay MarriageChief Jtice Roy S.

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.

ALABAMA JUDGE FAC ETHICS COMPLAT FOR GAY MARRIAGE LETTER

”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.

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.

JUDGE STRIK DOWN ALABAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

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.

ROY MOORE, ALABAMA JUDGE, SPEND OVER GAY MARRIAGE STANCE

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. 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.

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

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

FERAL JUDGE: ALABAMA JUDG MT ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS

But if homosexualy is fivable, same-sex marriage still seems to be, for him, “crossg the le”.

ALABAMA SUPREME COURT REF CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE

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.

ALABAMA HALTS GAY MARRIAG AFTER RULG

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.

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

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.

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

”Excludg Alabama, 36 stat, pl the District of Columbia, allow gay men and lbians to wed.