Monday, February 9, 2015

First same-sex marriages have started across Alabama

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The U.S. Supreme Court says it won't stop same-sex marriages from beginning in Alabama on Monday, prompting marriages to begin in some courthouse across the state.

Despite resistance from some state judges to begin to issue licenses for same-sex couples, Alabama just became the 37th state to greenlight gay marriages.

The court on Monday morning denied the Alabama attorney general's request to extend a hold on a judge's ruling overturning the state's ban on gay marriage

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange had asked the Supreme Court to keep the decision on hold because justices are expected to issue a nationwide ruling on gay marriage later this year. Read more...

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