Judge says Alabama must perform gay ‘marriages’
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against enforcing Alabama's law banning same-sex “marriage,” despite the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision upholding that law. In March 2015, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, which ruled that same-sex "marriage" is a Constitutional right, the state Supreme Court had ordered probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, saying the state law remained in effect. In January of this year, Chief Justice Roy Moore reaffirmed that 2015 state Supreme Court decision. In an Administrative Order he reminded the state's judges that the ban on same-sex "marriage" remained in effect, and advised them not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Then, in March of this year, the state Supreme Court issued a 170-page ruling rejecting the Obergefell decision. However, U.S. District Judge Callie V. Granade ruled last week that state officials are bound by the U...