Some Alabama counties refuse marriage licenses to gay couples despite ruling
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Hundreds of same-sex couples married in Alabama on Monday, surrounded by rainbow flags and cheering supporters, as a disparate map of marriage equality emerged in the state in which dozens more were denied the right to marry by state judges who refused to obey a federal order to allow such weddings.
Alabama is legally the 37th state to allow same-sex marriage, but couples like Robert Povilat and Milton Persinger spent the day frustrated outside a courthouse because a county judge refused to abide by the ruling.
“We’ll stay until the office closes at the end of the day,” said Povilat, who arrived at the Mobile County marriage license department just before 7am on Monday.
Mobile County judge Don Davis closed his office doors and windows for more than two hours on Monday, eventually opening for people seeking other services like deeds. Meanwhile, Povilat said he and about a dozen others were still waiting in line at 3pm local time because Davis, like a number of other judges across the state, refused to issue marriage licenses.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/09/some-alabama-counties-refuse-marriage-licences-gay-couples
Tell ya what: this time, let's not fight to keep them and their brother states in the Union.
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