Chaos reigns in Alabama as same-sex couples seek marriage licenses

AL.com ^ | 02/09/2015 | Amy Yurkanin

[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.

[Vermont Lt]

My dog makes choices every day.

But would these guys be into hetero beastiality or homo beastiality.

You see how complicated things get when you step on the slippery slope. Although I am pretty sure my dog would not respond well to an “approach.”

[Republican Wildcat]

The legislature should now repeal the concept marriage licenses altogether - declaring in the legislation that because the meaning of marriage has been outlawed by the Federal court’s inability to understand the concept of language that two men cannot be husband and wife, nor two women, no further state marriage licenses can be issued so that marriage can continue to exist vs. being outlawed if it remains under state jurisdiction.

If someone is in Alabama please send this idea to your state legislator.

[MarkRegal05]

Yup. Justice Thomas says the same thing this morning..

This is from a SCOTUS blog article:
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the denial of the stay, in a three-page opinion that was joined by Justice Antonin Scalia. Thomas argued that, “[w]hen courts declare state laws unconstitutional and enjoin state officials from enforcing them,” the Court’s “ordinary practice is to suspend those injunctions from taking effect pending appellate review.” Noting that the Court had “granted a stay in similar circumstances a little over a year ago,” Thomas suggested that Alabama’s request “should have been treated no differently.” Moreover, Thomas observed, the Court’s failure to grant a stay “may well be seen as a signal of the Court’s intended resolution” of the same-sex marriage question. “This,” he complained, “is not the proper way to discharge our Article III responsibilities. And, it is indecorous for this Court to pretend that it is.”

[Republican Wildcat]

That wasn’t the point of it, however - it is to ruin the definition of the word and ruin the definition of marriage and family itself by legal force. Fewer and fewer ‘straight’ couples are getting married as well these days - which had to come first. same sex “marriage” was just a natural progression in the disrespect being given to marriage.

[Ray76]

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.

Fire 'em.

In that connection, Moore wrote:

“Should any probate judge of this state fail to follow the Constitution and the statutes of Alabama as stated, it would be the responsibility of the chief executive officer of the state of Alabama, Gov. Robert Bentley, in whom the Constitution vests ‘the supreme executive power of this state,’ … to ensure the execution of the law.”

Source: http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/drastic-measure-taken-on-gay-marriage/?cat_orig=us

[SeaHawkFan]

So if a dog tries to hump a persons leg, another dog, or a cat; is that a sexual assault?

[CrazyIvan]

I was driving my father someplace last year and we passed a car with the = sticker on the bumper. He thought it was captains bars and waved. I didn't have the heart to tell him.

[MrB]

Yeah, at some point, you don’t want to bother the elderly with the realization at how far our society has perverted itself.

[Genoa]

Yeah, at some point, you don’t want to bother the elderly with the realization at how far our society has perverted itself.

I am already practicing that on myself.

[armydawg505]

Simple solution, let the legislature eliminate state wedding licenses and tell the feds to start issuing them since they now control marriage.

[Sooth2222]

"Yeah, at some point, you don’t want to bother the elderly with the realization at how far our society has perverted itself."

The elderly (any the young, and the middle aged) should fret more about institutionalized Political Correctness than about America-going-gay.

"The National Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for annually assessing Americans’ health and behaviors, found that 1.6 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent consider themselves bisexual."

97.7% ... not quite as good as Ivory Soap but much better than the MSM wants us to think.

[pepsionice]

In the spring of 2014, the number of gay marriages (I looked it up about six months ago) was around 77,000. The general trend, if you figure the remaining states and the way that statistical analysis runs....we will peak with all fifty states gay-married-friendly around the summer of 2016...maybe hitting 115,000. I doubt we will ever go past that point....if you figure an average of 5,000 of these going to a divorce stage every year. All of this....for roughly 230,000 Americans.

[liberalism is suicide]

The sodomites are already confused. Why should additional confusion matter to them?

[SeaHawkFan]

It is same-sex “marriage” that is creating the chaos.

[Beagle8U]

“Bestial marriage would be a tough one since everyone admits an animal can’t make a contract.”

Not too long ago a guy in WA state was charged with bestiality, but a judge ruled that there was no state law against it, and he said the prosecution had offered no evidence that horse/cow/sheep/whatever didn’t enjoy it!

The guy got off Scott free! Don’t think it can’t happen.

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[Vigilanteman]

Because so few same sex people are actually tying the knot.

You can do the math. Something like 2% or 3% of the country is actually homosexual and 2% or 3% of that tiny subset are actually interested in anything like a heterosexual marriage relationship. That is maybe like 1/100th of 1% of the total population.

Of course the number of those actually claiming they are interested so they can sue or preen or claim their "rights" were violated is many, many times that number aided and abetted by their friends in the enemedia.

[MeshugeMikey]

[Vermont Lt]

I guess they have to ask permission first. You know, like those colleges do.

My dog “asks” to go out. Why shouldn’t she ask the cat if she wants a good hump?

[SharpRightTurn]

“’I don’t know whether I want to defy the chief justice of the state supreme court or a federal judge,’ Pow said.”

If you want to stop the trampling by the federales of your state’s rights under the constitution, that would be a pretty easy choice.