Posted on 02/10/2015 7:22:10 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
Same-sex marriages went forward Monday in Alabama, for the most part, notwithstanding an effort by the Chief Justice of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Amid conflicting signals from federal courts and the chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, some Alabama counties began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday in a legal showdown with echoes of the battles over desegregation in the 1960s.
In major county seats like Birmingham, Montgomery and Huntsville, gay couples lined up outside courthouses as they opened, and emerged smiling, licenses in hand, after being wed by clerks or by the judges themselves.
At the Jefferson County Courthouse here, Judge Michael G. Graffeo of Circuit Court officiated, at times tearfully, at the civil wedding of Dinah McCaryer and Olanda Smith, the first to emerge from the crowd of same-sex couples who lined up Monday morning. “I now pronounce Olanda and Dinah are married spouses, entitled to all rights and privileges, as well as all responsibilities, afforded and placed upon them by the State of Alabama,” Judge Graffeo said. [...]
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I think most everyone misses the point about “gay marriage.”
1. Official Washington is a massive collection of lawyers.
2. Lawyers are always looking for ways to increase their bottom line.
3. “Gay marriage” is a bonanza for the legal crowd, from divorce lawyers to estate lawyers and everyone in between.
4. Always follow the money.
Seems to the be calling card of the liberals this time to compare Roy Moore to George Wallace. Yet they refuse to mention one word about old George being a democrat and supporting him at the time.
My niece just posted on FB “what on earth is in the water in Alabama”. I posted “logic and intelligence”...expecting to be under attack by her brainwashed friends soon. She is at Univ of Texas, Austin studying “History”
Quick send the troops to Alabama to escort the gays to the Courthouse.
Please pray for Judge Roy Moore!
He’s taking the stand we support.....and he’s not afraid, but he will be tested.
Or perhaps Jonah? "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed."
Believe it or not there was a time when the CSM was a decent publication.
I went to those schools in Alabama. The feds forced desegregation in 1963, and things were still in chaos when I started in the mid 70’s.
The intentions and motives were moral, no doubt...but the implementation was terrible.
good for you, it’s about time more and more spoke up against this .
Me too—thanks to the way 0b0la has set back and hyper-polarised race relations in this country, Geo. Wallace sounds quite reasonable right about now.
His famous quote simply reflected the feelings of the BLACK militants—he was agreeing with them.
If you lived in Canada you likely would have been arrested, soon it will be a crime here as well.
I was in Vancouver, Canada, in about 1999 when I heard a parent on a radio program discussing what a teacher had said to students....after describing homo behavior....”how do you know you don’t like it if you haven’t tried it”....SICKOs
Well said.
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