The order applied only to that couple, and “any additional licenses issued to same-sex couples also must be court ordered,” Debeauvoir’s office said in a statement. Texas’ ban on same-sex…
WASHINGTON — At least 43 of Alabama’s 67 counties are now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, following a federal judge’s order Thursday reiterating that marriage equality is legal in…
For three days, same-sex couples and their supporters have camped out in the Mobile, Ala., probate court, waiting to be issued marriage licenses. Alabama counties where probate judges are declining…
Same-sex marriage spread farther across Alabama on Tuesday as more courthouses issued licenses to gays and lesbians, yet some counties still defied a federal judge’s order, so couples took their…
While many couples converged on courthouses in population centers like Montgomery, Birmingham and Huntsville to exchange vows, other would-be newlywedsthe majority of them in rural countieswere turned away. “It was…
Gay rights advocates have asked a federal court to order a local official in Mobile, Ala., to begin issuing marriage licenses on Tuesday to same-sex couples, a day after some…