Discussion: Alabama Probate Judges Won't Issue Marriage Licenses To Gay Couples After Ruling

system1 · January 25, 2015, 9:30pm

Discussion for article #232473

commenterperson · January 25, 2015, 9:36pm

Just what part of the phrase “equal protection under the law” do those probate judges NOT understand?

Alabama Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, oh Arizona, too, it’s a race for the title of most Constitutionally ignorant state in the nation.

smokinthegotp · January 25, 2015, 10:00pm

Can you say “contempt of court”?

Sure – I knew you could!

mikec · January 25, 2015, 10:00pm

Is there another Selma-like march needed on the horizon?

captaincommonsense · January 25, 2015, 10:01pm

Keep on kicking and screaming, it won’t help…

ottnott · January 25, 2015, 10:10pm

Whatever, ostriches.

bluinmaine · January 25, 2015, 10:11pm

Opps you forgot tenn. we are our own country or at least trying to be. Mr 2 billion dollar govenor can buy it any which way he wants. So far it’s for the goody people and the rest may rot in peace.

robertbrk · January 25, 2015, 10:17pm

Expect a blistering clarification from the Judge - not on the ruling, but on the practical effects of such a ruling in 3…2…1…

weatherservo9 · January 25, 2015, 10:21pm

‘The Alabama Probate Judges Association wants to ensure that all Alabamians are clear that, 1) “probate” is a funny word, and 2) Friday’s ruling does not open the door for the issuance of same sex marriage licenses, so you can go right on baking your completely heterosexual wedding cakes.’

dlefevre · January 25, 2015, 10:21pm

If you don’t want to serve the public… the WHOLE public, then don’t become a public servant.

sherlock1 · January 25, 2015, 10:22pm

Oh Alabama Probate Judges Association____you ignorant sluts! This same ~snicker!~ “reasoning” worked so well in Florida, huh? _______ I’m not a constitutional scholar or lawyer, but when I read, “IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that ALA.CONST.ART.I, § 36.03 (2006) and ALA. CODE 1975 § 30-1-19 are unconstitutional because they violate they Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” as written by District Judge Granade, I understood that those laws were unconstitutional, not just for the plaintiffs, but for the State of Alabama. Too difficult for you to understand, you homophobic scumsucking twits? Constitutional and civil rights are NOT settled one person, or couple, at a time.

Judge Greg Norris is proof that mindless animus (ala the depraved George Wallace’s demonstration against integration in the schoolhouse door) exists against the LGBT community and that depraved and loathsome assh*les are judges in Alabama.

Let’s see what Judge Granade has to say about the effects and interpretation of her ruling. I think a huge judicial bitchslap’ awakening is coming to Norris et al.

paulw · January 25, 2015, 11:01pm

Speaking with utter legal persnicketiness, he has a point. Judges can refuse to issue marriage licenses until the moment that a ruling is issued that the striking-down of the ban means they have to issue licenses to same-sex couples. It’s like the assh*le prosecutors who don’t free innocent prisoners when their convictions are vacated, and instead wait until a court actually orders the prisoner freed.

dizcuzted · January 25, 2015, 11:21pm

He then followed up with: “Our cash-rich state will just wait for yet another court proceeding to remind us about the equal protection clause after a long and protracted series of lawsuits, before we issue licenses. Because hey, we’ve nothing better to do with our time and money.”

trippin · January 25, 2015, 11:24pm

doremus_jessup · January 25, 2015, 11:31pm

After reading this article on saving Roe v Wade I think they should argue for gay marriage on 1st Amendment grounds instead of equal protection.

tetrisd · January 25, 2015, 11:31pm

I would have so much fun as a lawyer suing these probate judges or counties. Does Section 1983 apply to judges and counties? Attorneys fees and sanctions against the county for frivolously defending a lawsuit to get a marriage license? The possibilities are endless.

dweb · January 25, 2015, 11:59pm

They could possibly take it out of the salary of Alabama football coach Nick Saban, but again, they do have their
“pirorities” in Bama.

midnight_rambler · January 26, 2015, 12:43am

Yep; after all, Granade’s ruling only said that they “cannot enforce” the ban on same-sex marriage; nothing in there about requiring them to allow it!

Somehow, I suspect that interpretation isn’t going to last long past tomorrow.

benthere · January 26, 2015, 12:44am

Similar to Gov. George Wallace standing in the school house door, their actions will not stand. The law and the tide of history are against them.

sonsofares · January 26, 2015, 1:19am

“The Confederacy will not be cowed by a Yankee court!” Agricola later tweeted.