Eight Alabama Counties Refusing to Issue ANY Marriage Licenses

[HAB911]

Probate judges in at least eight Alabama counties continued to refuse to issue any marriage licenses as of Tuesday, nearly 16 months after the U.S. Supreme Court found that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.

More than a dozen Alabama probate judges stopped issuing marriage licenses to both gay and straight couples at various points after a federal judge struck down Alabama's gay marriage ban on Jan. 23, 2015, and in the wake of the June 26, 2015, Supreme Court ruling.

On Tuesday, AL.com spoke with representatives of 14 of 15 county probate courts that gay marriage advocates identified as having indicated in recent months that they would not grant marriage licenses. Calls seeking comment from Geneva County Probate Judge Greg Hamic's office were not immediately returned.

Six of the judges said Tuesday that they are now issuing the licenses, but employees of Autauga, Choctaw, Clarke, Cleburne, Covington, Elmore, Pike and Washington counties confirmed that their probate judges are not currently granting any marriage licenses.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/10/at_least_8_alabama_counties_st.html

What's the saying again..............cutting off one's nose to spite one's face?! TOO FUNNY

[DFW]

1. But guns are fine

License to kill, not to marry.

Now THERE'S a set of priorities for you.

[MH1]

3. Gay = destruction of America

Gunz = Freedom !!1

(I really don't need a sarcasm thingy, do I?)

[DFW]

6. Fear not

Not all of us southerners are THAT dense

[randome]

2. This will come to be seen the same as being against interracial marriages.

The fact that they can't see this shows how short-sighted they are.

Unfortunately they're not "cutting off their nose" with this since they aren't required to issue any marriage licenses. It's just a big, fat inconvenience for heterosexuals, as well, and that may put additional pressure on them to give in, which they inevitably will.
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[Iggo]

4. Good. Because it is the same.

[Blue Idaho]

5. Cutting off their nose to spite their face...

What a bunch o asshats.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

7. Maybe there needs to be a law that bans ALL marriage in any state that

pulls crap like this to try to circumvent the federal law or allows it to be circumvented. No judge or minister should be required to perform any marriage they don't wish to perform...but they need to grant the licenses.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Deny federal exemptions based on marriage for anyone in Alabama?