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09836 Re: Alabama And Same Sex Marriage
   ktc ...people have been allowed to wed anyone they wanted to for ages...
ribit   FFFT3   05 Mar 2015
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09804 Re: Alabama And Same Sex Marriage
   ...... But the state supreme court's decision threw the issue in...
clo   FFFT3   04 Mar 2015
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Alabama And Same Sex Marriage

By: killthecat in FFFT3
Wed, 04 Mar 15 7:00 AM
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court is ordering the state's probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

The all-Republican court sided with a pair of conservative organizations Tuesday in ruling that the U.S. Constitution doesn't alter the judges' duty to administer state law.

The court says Alabama has defined marriage as between only one man and one woman for about 200 years. And it says a federal court used "sleight of hand" in a case that resulted in most of Alabama allowing gay marriage last month.

The Alabama Policy Institute and the Baptist-run Alabama Citizens Action Program asked the court to halt same-sex unions after a federal judge in Mobile said Alabama laws banning them were unconstitutional.