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The biggest problem with that is that Marriage is the Joining of One Man and One Woman.Not so. Alabama is a common law state. A man and a woman can get married in a church without benefit of a license. Hold themselves out as being married and to all intents and purposes they are married, even for federal purposes.Actually, that would not make them married in the eyes of the federal government, same sex or opposite sex. Without a legal contract, no one is federally married and can claim certain benefits. The judges who want to be horse's butts will lose that money to other counties and eventually lose elections."Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
Great idea...
Simply stop issuing Marriage Licenses all together... Let the Church which marries people issue the document which designates them as married and only recognize those people as married.
LOVE IT!
SCOTUS gave gays marriage licenses, not common law.
Way to go Alabama. Very nicely done.
The decision was to overturn SSCM bans. Common Law is simply a means of entering into Civil Marriage.
If Common Law Marriage are available to different-sex couples (and there only a handful of states that still allow new CLM's), then they are equally available to same-sex couples.
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Well, the USSC just butt fucked you. Happy days...The biggest problem with that is that Marriage is the Joining of One Man and One Woman.Not so. Alabama is a common law state. A man and a woman can get married in a church without benefit of a license. Hold themselves out as being married and to all intents and purposes they are married, even for federal purposes.Actually, that would not make them married in the eyes of the federal government, same sex or opposite sex. Without a legal contract, no one is federally married and can claim certain benefits. The judges who want to be horse's butts will lose that money to other counties and eventually lose elections."Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
Great idea...
Simply stop issuing Marriage Licenses all together... Let the Church which marries people issue the document which designates them as married and only recognize those people as married.
LOVE IT!
SCOTUS gave gays marriage licenses, not common law.
Way to go Alabama. Very nicely done.
The decision was to overturn SSCM bans. Common Law is simply a means of entering into Civil Marriage.
If Common Law Marriage are available to different-sex couples (and there only a handful of states that still allow new CLM's), then they are equally available to same-sex couples.
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Those were beautiful times."Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
A little bit of history repeating itself...
"Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
A little bit of history repeating itself...
How are you equating a municipality refusing to compromise their faith, with a bunch of 1960's Democrats refusing African-Americans from attending which school they want, from eating at a lunch counter, or from sitting in the front of the bus?
Last I heard, same-sex couples have and have always had those rights.
Are we trying to be a little dramatic or over the top here? You're not doing a good job of convincing me of your position.
"Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
Great idea...
Simply stop issuing Marriage Licenses all together... Let the Church which marries people issue the document which designates them as married and only recognize those people as married.
LOVE IT!
Well marriage is after all, defined as a holy bond between one man and one woman. There is no Biblical church that I know of, that could honestly say it's adhering to God's word by attempting to marry a same-sex couple.
Any so-called "church" that sanctioned that, would be defying God.
The Supreme Court will have to decide this one too.'Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, said he doesn't think courts will allow counties to opt of the marriage business. The Supreme Court's decision affirmed marriage as a fundamental right, he said. So denying marriage licenses to everyone does not follow the court's order.
"They would be basically defying a Supreme Court ruling, so I think they're going to have to do [same-sex marriage]," Tobias said.'
Hence the pointless stupidity of refusing to issue the licenses.
The Supreme Court will have to decide this one too.'Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, said he doesn't think courts will allow counties to opt of the marriage business. The Supreme Court's decision affirmed marriage as a fundamental right, he said. So denying marriage licenses to everyone does not follow the court's order.
"They would be basically defying a Supreme Court ruling, so I think they're going to have to do [same-sex marriage]," Tobias said.'
Hence the pointless stupidity of refusing to issue the licenses.
If some counties or states are that fucking dumb...The Supreme Court will have to decide this one too.'Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, said he doesn't think courts will allow counties to opt of the marriage business. The Supreme Court's decision affirmed marriage as a fundamental right, he said. So denying marriage licenses to everyone does not follow the court's order.
"They would be basically defying a Supreme Court ruling, so I think they're going to have to do [same-sex marriage]," Tobias said.'
Hence the pointless stupidity of refusing to issue the licenses.
"Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
Your right to marriage has been removed? When?It seems that individual freedoms and liberties are only extended to a few select Liberal groups.
You are being a drama queen because your "faith" is not compromised by letting two other people get married."Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
A little bit of history repeating itself...
How are you equating a municipality refusing to compromise their faith, with a bunch of 1960's Democrats refusing African-Americans from attending which school they want, from eating at a lunch counter, or from sitting in the front of the bus?
Last I heard, same-sex couples have and have always had those rights.
Are we trying to be a little dramatic or over the top here? You're not doing a good job of convincing me of your position.
When were faggots slaves or made to sit in the back of the bus or made to drink from a different water fountain or forced to live in their own communities. History? No. Your comment is just more retarded rhetoric from the people who think with their genitals."Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Apparently the law says they MAY issue marriage licenses, not that they must.
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling AL.com
A little bit of history repeating itself...
Then so be it but Alabama will have washed their hands of the whole mess.The Supreme Court decision only involves the issuing of marriage licenses.
Looks like SCOTUS will have another case to decide.
"The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold—and it now does hold—that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character."
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
The case decided a fundamental right to marry. Not just receive a license. If a state is one of the few that still allows Common Law Marriages (a form of legal Civil Marriage), then that method is also available to same-sex couples.
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Alabama and 18 other states can stop issuing Marriage licenses altogether if they want. The supreme court will have to extend their ruling to common law marriage since their ruling only guarantees the right to a marriage license.Then so be it but Alabama will have washed their hands of the whole mess.The Supreme Court decision only involves the issuing of marriage licenses.
Looks like SCOTUS will have another case to decide.
"The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold—and it now does hold—that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character."
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
The case decided a fundamental right to marry. Not just receive a license. If a state is one of the few that still allows Common Law Marriages (a form of legal Civil Marriage), then that method is also available to same-sex couples.
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