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Alabama just voted to end all marriage licenses because of course it did
Alabama’s on a roll.
First it was abortion.
Then it was gay rat weddings.
Now, state lawmakers have moved on to marriage licenses.
Both houses of Alabama’s legislature have approved a bill that replaces “marriage licenses” with “marriage certificates.”
The purpose? To satisfy homophobic county probate judges who are morally opposed to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Right now, when a couple wants to get married, a county probate judge must issue them a marriage license. Under the new law, the judge will only have...
Alabama passes law to eliminate marriage licenses to spite same-sex couples
Alabama lawmakers have passed legislation that would eliminate marriage licenses in the state. The measure is widely seen as a punitive attack on the LGBTQ community after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage years ago.
A license would no longer be required to get married under the new law. Instead, couples would file an affidavit that they were married and it would be recorded.
Judges in the state have been using a loophole to refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay...
