Alabama Probate Judges Won’t Issue Marriage Licenses To Gay Couples After Ruling

In this June 23, 2013 photo, an American flag and a LGBT Rainbow flag are displayed on the ferry dock in the Fire Island community of Cherry Grove, N.Y. The 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City is generally acce... In this June 23, 2013 photo, an American flag and a LGBT Rainbow flag are displayed on the ferry dock in the Fire Island community of Cherry Grove, N.Y. The 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City is generally accepted as the Lexington and Concord of the gay rights revolution - the first shots in a battle that eventually led to last week's landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. But in this seaside resort 60 miles east of Manhattan, reports that homosexuals were standing up for their rights that summer of Woodstock and moon landings was hardly breaking news: a gay community in Cherry Grove had been thriving there for at least two decades before Stonewall. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) MORE LESS
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Although a federal judge struck down Alabama’s same sex marriage ban on Friday, the the judges responsible for issuing marriage licenses will not begin giving them to gay couples.

According to the Alabama Probate Judges Association, the ruling only applies to the plaintiffs in the case.

“Many media outlets are reporting that the ruling, issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade, will allow same sex couples to receive marriage licenses in Alabama beginning Monday morning. The Alabama Probate Judges Association wants to ensure that all Alabamians are clear that Friday’s ruling does not open the door for the issuance of same sex marriage licenses,” the group said in a statement Saturday night, according to the Alabama Media Group.

Al Agricola, attorney for the group, said that the ruling does not require probate judges to issue licenses to all gay couples.

“The legal effect of this decision is to allow one person in one same sex marriage that was performed in another state to adopt their partner’s child. There is nothing in the judge’s order that requires probate judges in Alabama to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples,” Agricola said in a Saturday press release.

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  1. Just what part of the phrase “equal protection under the law” do those probate judges NOT understand?

    Alabama Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, oh Arizona, too, it’s a race for the title of most Constitutionally ignorant state in the nation.

  2. Can you say “contempt of court”?

    Sure – I knew you could!

  3. Avatar for mikec mikec says:

    Is there another Selma-like march needed on the horizon?

  4. Keep on kicking and screaming, it won’t help…

  5. Whatever, ostriches.

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