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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...