READ: Chief Alabama judge pledges to defy Supreme Court ruling
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“This order should make clear to all of the probate judges across Alabama that they need to follow the federal district court’s constitutional ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage,” said Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center. “If necessary, gay and lesbian couples will haul resisting judges into court and the end result will be the same: a federal order requiring those judges to issue marriage licenses.”
