Many rints nservative Alabama are feelg shell-shocked at the recent US supreme urt cisn on gay marriage – and are gog on the fensive
Contents:
- MEET THE ALABAMA JUDG WHO REFE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS – GAY OR STRAIGHT
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
MEET THE ALABAMA JUDG WHO REFE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS – GAY OR STRAIGHT
Marriage licens will be replaced by marriage certifit Alabama. Now nservative judg no longer have to sign marriage licens for gay upl. * how to get a gay marriage license in alabama *
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.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
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. 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. 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.