Posted on 02/12/2015 2:16:21 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
An Alabama federal judge on Thursday ordered the state’s second-largest county to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, paving the way for other holdout parts of the state to fall in line.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade was directed at Don Davis, probate judge of Mobile County, the most populous of several dozen Alabama counties that had not complied with a same-sex marriage ruling that took effect on Monday. Granade’s decision may convince other probate judges to no longer heed an order from Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore to continue refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
"Probate Judge Don Davis is hereby enjoined from refusing to issue marriage licenses to plaintiffs due to the Alabama laws which prohibit same-sex marriage," Granade wrote.
More than 40 of Alabama’s 67 counties were withholding same-sex marriage licenses before Granade’s decision on Thursday. Three-fifths of the holdouts had stopped issuing any marriage licenses and two-fifths were only issuing licenses to opposite-sex couples, according to the nonprofit Human Rights Campaign.
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Ask Governor Faubus how that worked out for him.
Ask Governor Faubus how that worked out for him.
Folks can resign.
Or wait for the Federal Marshalls.
Whoa.
What you said!
Yep, my wife came home yesterday who told me there was a guy from MA trying to have a conversation with her about politics.
She told him about the homosexual marriage issue and he told he that it was not important and what about ISIS etc.
She replied it is important because it is here affecting us and the children. He walked off she said not knowing what to say.
They are destroying this country, the beliefs and traditions which made the country strong and great.
Or defund all offices that issue licenses. If nobody is working there then no licenses can be given out.
You detail state troopers to the judge, you advise the judge to hold his ground, and you draw the line in the sand. “This far, no more.”
Either the 10th means something or the feds can try to pass an amendment repealing it.
The feds can’t tell the states what’s constitutional or not on matters in which the constitution has no authority. That’s the point to the 9th and 10th, and why Roe v Wade is such a huge mistake by SCOTUS (in a long, long line of mistakes).
Make him.
Will the Feds go after over 30 Gov’s and state judges, no course not.
What we have here is a constitutional crisis where the Feds have taken away freedom of religion, free speech and state rights.
No ones rights have been taken away at all in marriage they are free to marry the opposite sex just as we . They can’t marry the same sex just as we. It doe snot state marriage is a right in the Constitution either.
This Fed judge and others like are imposing their left wing agenda.
Remember, he tried to appoint Harriet Myers.
I’m a lawyer and I’ll just simply respond by saying what we all know. The Constitution has been completely perverted and is no longer recognizable. It appears that only Thomas and Scalia give a damn about the document.
To me it is tantamount to an act of war on the State’s.
No Governor-- including the Governor of Alabama-- is resisting any federal court order on gay marriage.
Tell the judge to screw and continue to refuse to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.
Exactly. They have no such power. They just made it up.
Any argument has more then one point of view. They have simply quashed or ignored it because it fits their idea of a "progressive" social agenda.
Has nothing to do with laws. Queer marriage has failed at the polls everywhere except maybe San Francisco county.
Another poster said this was crossing the Rubicon. That it is. At this point, the federal government - a creation of the States - no longer respects any State power.
Since when did the creators of a club become its slaves?
He was recommended to Bush by Jeff Sessions.
Is it worth going to jail? If a large number of them thought so, it would make a strong impression on the SCOTUS.
One thing that does get through the thick head of many judges is when there is a refusal to obey their dictates. For as with many tyrants, it is essential for them to have willing victims, or they are powerless.
this is about a recreational BEHAVIOR not an immutable trait like skin color.
There has never been a legal “love test” for marriage.
The only segment of the general pop that is Ginsberg ready for fetish behavior based marriage is the judicial class. The citizen class has already pass judgment on the BEHAVIOR.
Same-sex marriage was adopted by popular vote in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington State, and by the state legislatures in CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, NH, NY, RI and VT.
Same-sex marriage was adopted by popular vote in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington State, and by the state legislatures in CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, NH, NY, RI and VT.
No, they don’t have to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals. Obama set the precedent by refusing to implement DOMA.
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