36 out of 66 treating everyone equally (one way or the other) in just one day ain't bad...
Despite resistance, Alabama heads the right way on same-sex marriage
Washington Post - Editorial Board - 2/10/15
Reporters Mike Cason, Erin Edgemon and Debbie Lord contributed to this story.
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ROY MOORE, Alabama’s top judge, threw a fit this week over a federal court decision
ordering the state to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The result was unnecessary and counterproductive statewide confusion
as gay and lesbian couples attempted to wed and state officials weighed
whether they should listen to Alabama’s chief justice or the federal judiciary.
There can be no question about who wins. Neither state nor federal officials can
sustain Justice Moore’s lawless exhortations to ignore the federal bench.
We trust that Alabama’s leaders, starting with the probate judges responsible
for issuing marriage licenses, will bring the state into compliance with the court’s ruling.
The number of probate judges refusing to comply dropped Tuesday.
If that trend does not continue, state or federal authorities should step in more strongly.
Red = not issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
green = issuing licenses to all couples
yellow = not issuing any marriage licenses
orange are only accepting applications, but issuing no licenses
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