Justice's gay marriage order halts licenses in parts of Alabama

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Thu Jan 7, 2016 3:45pm EST

Justice's gay marriage order halts licenses in parts of Alabama

BY COLLEEN JENKINS

Federal prosecutors in Alabama said probate judges should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite being told otherwise by the state's chief justice, but at least two counties on Thursday stopped giving out the licenses altogether.

U.S. Attorneys Joyce White Vance and Kenyen Brown said they had grave concerns about Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's order because it advised the state's probate judges to disobey a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide last year.

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Gay marriage supporters denounced Moore's order and predicted it would be ignored.

But at least a couple of county probate judges stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether as a way to comply with the conflicting court rulings.

Marriage licenses were halted for all couples, same-sex or otherwise, in Mobile County, according to that office's website. Elmore County took the same step, a staff member there said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-alabama-gaymarriage-idUSKBN0UL2H920160107

[randys1]

1. Moore is a despicable punk, of course. Someone this ignorant and childish and hateful should

not be allowed to clean floors in a public building, let alone run the judicial system.

Someone this ugly and stupid and full of hate would be dangerous cleaning floors if doing so around normal human beings.

[uppityperson]

2. What the hell is wrong with people? eom

[R. P. McMurphy]

3. I realize your question is rhetorical . . .

but I'm going to suggest ignorance, hatred and deep-seated feelings of inferiority.

[LostOne4Ever]

4. I keep on asking myself the same thing. How can anyone be that full of hate? nt