Same Sex Marriage Banned In Alabama

Chief Justice in Alabama has prohibited the issuing of same sex marriage licenses.

He said that he needs a decision from the Alabama Supreme Court because

"the U.S. Supreme Court had only explicitly struck down same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee in its landmark decision Obergefell v. Hodges, though the ruling may be interpreted to apply to other states’ bans based on precedent."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alabama-chief-justice-same-sex-marriage_568d644ae4b0cad15e630ca1?7o9ftj4i=&

 

No surprise...............

[SIZE=10.5pt]In Vietnam the soldiers gave Roy Moore the nickname, "Captain America," because of his attitude toward discipline. His role earned him several enemies, he recalls sleeping on sandbags to avoid a grenade being tossed under his cot, and just as many soldiers had threatened to frag the commander.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=10.5pt]In February 2002, as Alabama Chief Justice, Moore issued a controversial opinion that expressed his belief that the State should use its powers to punish "homosexual behavior". [/SIZE]


[SIZE=10.5pt]Hotwater[/SIZE]

 

Dude needs to move to Russia.

 

Perhaps he should start small like moving into the 21st century


Hotwater

 

He was thrown out of office some years back for refusing to remove the 10 commandments from his court room, so says Yahoo news today.

 

(I don't know if it was office or courtroom) Fuckin' edit button does NOT WORK)

 

the guy is just following state law

isnt he doing the right thing ?...instead of breaking state law he is forcing people to look at the laws and change them

 

Many of your states and counties arent tracking licenses by sex though


A probable influx after the Supreme Courts ruling 6 months ago, but Id be interested to see, from a year after, just what percentage of licenses are for same sex couples

 

I think that a more appropriate response for him would have been to continue issuing the permits and still take the whole thing back to court. You can't deny them in the meantime is what I'm trying to say.

 

Federal law and federal court rulings automatically take priority over state law. A lot of states (especially in the south) still have a lot of obsolete laws on the books, mostly racial and sexual stuff that hasn't been enforced since the 1960's.

 

well he is chief justice of alabama so state law should be his only concern

if the citizens of alabama want federal law to be enforced they better start dumping some or all of the state ones that conflict or get over-ridden by federal laws

 

He is a NOB so would you expect anything else from him..nobs like attention, any!

 

...according to you.

Trust me, the citizens of Alabama don't want any federal laws enforced there.

 

well apparently this thread is about some federal laws they do want enforced

 

I'm not following you.

 

Karen, he's saying that the people want the same sex marriage in Alabama.

Are you saying that they don't?

 

This seems like a strategy we're seeing a lot of. Stalling processes and so forth. It seems like Congress has done something similar with regard to Obamacare. I haven't really read enough about it to go on, but I do know they tried to repeal it and forced Obama to Veto.

I guess my point is that this move seems to be strategic. It makes note of the "true" agenda. Ugh.

 

Nationally, public acceptance of gay marriage is well above 50%, but it's higher than average in the northeast and much lower in the deep south. So, I would expect this judge to have a lot of local support.

 

It's good or how the next generation grow

 

More religious tenets being forced into "law." Odd how religious folks don't really believe in 'freedom from religion' or religious freedom either. You MUST believe as they do---or by god they'll pass a law that will MAKE you adhere to their beliefs! Stay tuned. More coming. The repubs are in panic mode now--the world is passing them by (as usual) and as usual---
with conservatives, they ALWAYS like society, civil rights, the capitalist mantra (WITHOUT REGULATIONS) or any other progress (oooo-that scary word!)---to continue, even so unbalanced. It's obvious, the basic underpinning of their psychology is against anything progressive. Everything is always---just as it should be--even when that's grossly not the case.

Isn't the first time, won't be the last time those types will completely fuck up the balance of society by thinking that they deserve "it all."