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Alabama standoff over same-sex marriage channels George Wallace
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 10, 2015 | Doug Mataconis

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; celebratesin; christianscience; culturewar; dougmataconis; gaynewsrooms; homosexualagenda; pinkjournalism; playtheracecard; samesexmarriage; smashthepatriarchy; statesrights; tenthamendment; waronmarriage
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To: ConservingFreedom

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.


21 posted on 02/10/2015 7:54:56 AM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: ConservingFreedom

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.


22 posted on 02/10/2015 7:55:31 AM PST by LowOiL ("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
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To: manc

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”


23 posted on 02/10/2015 7:58:43 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Quick send the troops to Alabama to escort the gays to the Courthouse.


24 posted on 02/10/2015 7:58:59 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Please pray for Judge Roy Moore!
He’s taking the stand we support.....and he’s not afraid, but he will be tested.


25 posted on 02/10/2015 7:59:33 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: SoFloFreeper
No, it channels Moses.

Or perhaps Jonah? "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed."

26 posted on 02/10/2015 8:04:14 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; GeronL
Quick send the troops to Alabama to escort the gays to the Courthouse Bathhouse.
27 posted on 02/10/2015 8:30:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Believe it or not there was a time when the CSM was a decent publication.


28 posted on 02/10/2015 8:34:33 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: cdcdawg

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.


29 posted on 02/10/2015 8:46:49 AM PST by lacrew (5th)
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To: goodnesswins

good for you, it’s about time more and more spoke up against this .


30 posted on 02/10/2015 8:47:08 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Boowhoknew

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.


31 posted on 02/10/2015 9:20:15 AM PST by __rvx86 (Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. ¡Si se puede!)
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To: manc
I got called a few names and she stormed off and it was well worth it letting them know not all of us are cowards and will not accept their agenda

If you lived in Canada you likely would have been arrested, soon it will be a crime here as well.

32 posted on 02/10/2015 10:30:40 AM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. $.98-$.89<$.10)
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To: itsahoot

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


33 posted on 02/10/2015 1:16:20 PM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Regulator

Well said.


34 posted on 09/15/2015 11:39:21 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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