Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on Monday the night before. He did this in an act of defiance to the federal system. Moore's order said, "Effective immediately, no probate judge of the State of Alabama nor any agent or employee of any Alabama probate judge shall issue or recognize a marriage license that is inconsistent." He insisted that the probate judges were not required go by Judge Granade's decisions declaring Alabama's refusal unconstitutional. Some judges said they would not permit a marriage license to gay couples, or any couples for that matter. One office had a sign that said: “Marriage licenses and ceremonies are no longer available at the Pike County Probate Office.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/us/gay-marriage-set-to-begin-in-alabama-amid-protest.html?ref=politics&_r=0
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