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• ONE OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA’S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE REFLECTS ON PAST STGGL
• FOR GAY UPL ALABAMA, ’S ‘ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK,’ SAY WOMEN WHO SUED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY
• GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA 1 YEAR LATER
• GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS
• IN LOVE AND SPERATE TO MARRY: GAY ALABAMA UPLE NIED BY A JUDG' REVOLT
• GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA
• ALABAMA GAY MARRIAG ALLOWED AFTER SUPREME COURT ORR
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

ONE OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA’S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE REFLECTS ON PAST STGGL

"Some unti began issug marriage licens to gay upl this morng, " she says, "but others are not. From Birmgham member statn WBHM, Rachel Osier Ldley reports: "The state's gay upl n apply for marriage licens for the first time Monday. Several others say they'll issue licens to gay upl, but to avoid officiatg any same-sex weddgs, they'll no longer pri over any marriage ceremoni.

Of the ban beg overturned, Alabama's only openly gay state legislator, Rep. After beg nied a marriage license the Wiregrass four tim, the first married gay uple Hoton County is reflectg on their stggl of gettg that marriage license.

FOR GAY UPL ALABAMA, ’S ‘ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK,’ SAY WOMEN WHO SUED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY

After beg engaged for over a year and fightg wh the Alabama urt system to issue a marriage license, Keh Ingram and Albert Pigg were fally married June 2015, th, beg the first gay uple to tie the knot Hoton County. Supreme Court led on gay marriage, Hoton County was one of many unti the state refg to issue marriage licens to any upl. “They didn’t ratify gay marriage, the feral ernment did, and they jt accepted after they were forced to accept .

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GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA 1 YEAR LATER

Supporters and protts of gay marriage Calhoun CountySupporters of gay marriage gathered outsi Calhoun County's probate urt Monday morng. (Brian Kelly/)Click here to see more of the photo gallery - Gay upl turned away Tloosa County.

Stephen DethrageGay upl turned away Tloosa CountySame-sex upl seekg marriage licens Tloosa County were turned away Monday morng by Probate Judge Hardy McCollum, who said he was bound by an orr om Alabama Supreme Court Chief Jtice Roy Moore to ny their issuance. 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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS

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. 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.

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

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.

”“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.

GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA

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.

ALABAMA GAY MARRIAG ALLOWED AFTER SUPREME COURT ORR

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. 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.

Opn: Gay marriage is Alabama judge’s latt battle. Gay upl who are relig say they rent Bible beg ed as reason to oppose same-sex marriage. Two feral urt cisns had cleared the path for same-sex marriag to beg eight days earlier, only for Chief Jtice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court to direct all probate judg to refe marriage licens to gay upl.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

Homosexualy, he claimed, is a choice. Lewis, 28, who hails om a Latter-Day Sats fay Payson, Utah, knew he was gay around puberty. “For the longt time, I hated myself for (beg gay).

Beg gay is natural. They didn’t live together sophomore year, but they eventually grew closer as iends. So to rep: Told most of their liv beg gay is abhorrent to God, Carmichael and Miller seek God’s blsg before ung wh one another as many Alabama e God’s word to st what Carmichael and Miller feel their hearts as s.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

To be clear, Williams’ parents love him, if not that he’s gay.

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

Supreme Court should make a clear lg favor of gay marriage. The morng after the 2004 electn, when voters 11 stat passed nstutnal bans on marriage equaly, I never thought I’d see mted and lovg gay and lbian upl gettg married my lifetime – Alabama of all plac.

Even today, more than half the unti the state are refg to issue licens to gay upl. In an terview wh CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday, Chief Jtice Moore even pared refg marriage licens to gay upl to refg to enforce the 1857 Dred Stt v.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

I’m not a traed lawyer, but the logic seems to be that the refal to treat people like slav unr the law is siar to the refal to grant gay and lbians their equal rights to marry unr the law. Feral judge: Alabama judg mt issue gay marriage licens. The People’s Brief will serve as a poignant remr to the Court that gay marriage is an issue that impacts the liv of both gay and straight, of those who are the fay, iends, and loved on of gay people, and of those who simply value a society where the rights of all people are treated wh equal digny.

Alabama gay marriag allowed after Supreme Court orr. Gay marriage is movg forward the heart of the South on Monday after the Supreme Court nied a requt om Alabama for a lay. The Supreme Court’s move mak Alabama the 37th state to allow gay marriage.