Most Alabama Counties Are Granting Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
MOBILE, Ala — As probate courts around Alabama opened on Friday, a day after a federal judge barred the probate judge in Mobile County from denying marriage licenses to same-sex…
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U.S. Judge Orders Alabama Official to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
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…
Alabama Gay Marriage Advocates Renew Legal Push for Licenses
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…
Gay marriage is Alabama judge’s latest battle
Moore was once best known for having a monument to the Ten Commandments built at a public Alabama judicial building. Federal courts ordered him to take it down in 2003….
Same-sex couples to wed in Alabama despite efforts to block them
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was ousted from his first chief justice post in 2003 after refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial…
Roy Moore, Alabama Chief Justice, Makes 11th Hour Attempt To Halt Gay Marriage
Alabama appeared set within hours to become the 37th state where gays can legally wed, prompting one couple to pitch a tent outside a courthouse even as the state’s chief…