Court strikes down Alabama ban on same-sex marriage
Source: washingtonblade
A federal judge in Alabama has become the latest to strike down a state ban on same-sex marriage, ruling against the Yellowhammer State’s prohibition on gay nuptials on the basis that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
In a 10-page decision on Friday, U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade, an appointee of George W. Bush, issued summary judgement in favor of a plaintiff same-sex couple, finding Alabama marriage laws violate the couple’s right to due process and equal protection under the U.S. Constitution.
“There has been no evidence presented that these marriage laws have any effect on the choices of couples to have or raise children, whether they are same-sex couples or opposite-sex couples,” Granade writes. “In sum, the laws in question are an irrational way of promoting biological relationships in Alabama.”
No stay is included with the decision, which enjoins the state from enforcing Alabama’s marriage laws in their entirety. It seems that same-sex couples can begin to wed in the state as soon as clerk’s office are open for business.
Read more: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/01/23/court-strikes-alabama-ban-sex-marriage/
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Mike Huckabee, a renowned constitutional scholar, says the Courts can't make laws like this! Alabama can just ignore this 'cuz liberal overreaching judiciary. Or something.
Of course not knowing that's the textbook example of an oxymoron... although I did see Secular Theocracy at the Troub last week, they were a pretty solid band. 
