Posted on 02/09/2015 8:20:49 AM PST by GIdget2004
A Sunday night order from Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore ordering probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples caused confusion at county courthouses this morning.
Probate judges in several counties decided not to issue any marriage licenses at all - to same-sex or heterosexual couples. In some counties, including Butler County, Colbert County and Coosa County probate courts are taking marriage applications from all couples but not issuing licenses.
In Coffee County, Jefferson County, Chilton County and Madison County, probate judges said they will issue marriage licenses to all couples, gay and straight, on Monday morning.
Probate judges in other counties chose to follow the order issued late Sunday by Chief Justice Moore. Probate judges in Bibb County, Covington County, Cleburne County and Washington County decided not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday, but will still issue licenses to opposite-sex couples.
Colbert County Probate Judge Douglas Rosser, Jr. said he is accepting applications but not issuing any licenses until further clarification. He said he hopes to revisit the policy by tomorrow morning.
"There's a conflict, and I want to follow the law," Rosser said. "But it is difficult this morning to follow the law."
Across the state, probate judges said they were seeking more clarification in the wake of Moore's order.
Probate Judge Jerry Pow of Bibb County said he is not issuing marriage licenses to any couples this morning.
"I don't know whether I want to defy the chief justice of the state supreme court or a federal judge," Pow said.
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How many queers are lining up to get married?
This has to be one of those
“when you see these things come to pass”
events.
What a cluster....
Fire 'em.
You may have touched on the good news regarding homosexual marriage.
And that is that relatively few homosexuals are actually deciding to get “married”.
Which to me the good news is that homosexuals may end up not really changing the nature of marriage and family life as much as we all feared. Because so few same sex people are actually tying the knot.
But the Supreme Court action clearly signals that they will impose 50 state homosexual marriage later this year.
And the media will celebrate homosexual marriage week when it happens. Remember when Obama came out for same sex marriage? We saw the media celebrate gay marriage week. It will happen again if the court, as expected, pushes this on the entire country.
Note the spin: Roy Moore is causing chaos.
Isn’t he the judge who refused to remove the 10 Commandments from the court house? I didn’t know he is now an AL Supreme Court Justice....
I’m thinking the bestiality thing is no joke, It’ll happen eventually.
You nailed it.
Bestial marriage would be a tough one since everyone admits an animal can’t make a contract. But there will probably be more bestiality without benefit of clergy. With regard to marriage, I look for consensual incest and plural marriage relatively soon, if things continue as they have been.
Yep, that’s what that “=” sign is.
Our relationship is “equal” to yours.
Yup. The whole thing has always seemed to me a scam on the part of divorce lawyers to expand their business.
Justice Moore is a DENIER!!!
In my state, in the face of immoral, unconstitutional, illegal dictates from the courts on “gay marriage” there was not a single magistrate, lesser or greater, who was man enough to stand up and fight. Not one. They all folded like a cheap suit.
Judge Moore is at the tip of the spear.
Support him, with prayer and your voice!
We will never save this free republic unless and until we begin to tell immoral, oath-breaking, usurping judges to go to hell!
“Bestial marriage would be a tough one since everyone admits an animal can’t make a contract.”
There’s a lawyer for everything nowadays.
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