Posted on 01/06/2016 6:00:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples even though a US. Supreme Court decision effectively legalized same-sex marriage more than six months ago.
The outspoken chief justice, who previously tried to block gay marriage from coming to the Deep South state, issued an administrative order saying the Alabama Supreme Court never lifted a March directive to probate judges to refuse licenses to gay couples.
"Until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders ... that Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain in full force and effect," Moore wrote. ...
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Let the feds enforce it.
FUBO!!
I love Roy Moore. I am writing in his name for President if the Republicans give me another doofus.
No matter which way he voted, he's still responsible (as is W).
Unlike the border, Obama & the feds will be hell-bent on enforcing this one, the 10th amendment be damned.
I love real Federalism. Norms pansy shadow that always caved to the bureaucracy and the courts!
Alabama, my new home, is probably going to be one of the first places the Feds attack come the civil war. Good, I won’t have to go anywhere.
I’m moving their shortly as well, from the Alamo State, if our Gov, AG or Supreme Court don’t grow a set of balls.
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