Tuesday, February 10, 2015

In Mobile, Alabama: Couples file Emergency Motion to Force Probate Judge to Issue Marriage Licenses


The gay marriage battle continues in Alabama.

Four same-sex couples have asked Federal Judge Callie V. S. Granade to force Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis to do his f*cking job! They demand for Davis to issue marriage licenses.

Here's more:

In their request to Judge Granade, the couples explained that each of them appeared at the Davis’s Mobile offices and were denied marriage licenses. The couples’ request explains that they are suffering serious harm each day that they continue to be excluded from marriage.

The Alabama couples are James Strawser and John Humphrey—who previously obtained a ruling from Judge Granade declaring that Alabama’s exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage is unconstitutional—and Meredith Miller and Anna Lisa Carmichael, Robert Povilat and Milton Persinger, and Kristy Simmons and Marshay Safford. The couples are represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Birmingham attorney Heather Fann, and the ACLU of Alabama.

Said NCLR Legal Director Shannon P. Minter: “While many same-sex couples in Alabama were able to marry today, many others were denied that basic freedom. We are hopeful that a ruling on this motion will provide clarity regarding the obligations of probate judges across the state and correct the misunderstanding generated by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who has erroneously instructed those judges not to comply with the requirements of the federal Constitution. We are confident that all Alabamians, regardless of where in the state they live, will soon enjoy the freedom to marry.”

This is getting out of hand. Over 40 counties are denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Time to sue these bastards!

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1 comment:

Bob said...

And all those judges not following the law should be removed from the bench.

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