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Before the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell on June 26, 2015, which held that the U.S. Constitution requires every U.S. state to recognize and license same-sex marriage, the legal status of same-sex marriage in Alabama had been the subject of a long legal battle.
Jul 19, 2022 · The lawsuit, filed on their behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Alabama, asked a judge to require Alabama to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and to...
May 24, 2019 · Marriage licenses will be replaced by marriage certificates in Alabama. Now conservative judges no longer have to sign marriage licenses for gay couples.
Patricia Todd, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, was elected in November 2006 and became the first ever openly gay elected official in the state of Alabama. In September 2013, she married her wife, Jennifer Clarke, in Massachusetts .
Feb 12, 2015 · Most legal experts say Alabama's probate judges, who are elected officials in a state that passed a gay marriage ban in 2006 with 81 percent of the vote, will ultimately have little choice...
Mar 4, 2015 · BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — The state of gay marriage in Alabama was thrown into confusion Wednesday as judges struggled to decide whether to follow the state high court's ruling banning same-sex weddings or a federal judge's order to issue licenses to gays and lesbians.
Feb 15, 2015 · As gay and lesbian couples left a nearby courthouse clutching marriage licenses last week, Moore, an outspoken critic of gay marriage, was fighting to stop the weddings using a states’ rights argument that conjured up those historical ghosts of slavery, the Civil War and the battle against desegregation.
