The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday defied the nation's highest tribunal and ordered that marriage licenses no longer be issued to same-sex couples in the state. The ruling comes some three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a stay on a decision by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade, who had overturned Alabama's ban on such unions.
The head of the Alabama court system is using a states' rights argument that conjures up "ghosts of slavery, the Civil War and the battle against desegregation" in his fight to stop same-sex marriage in the state. Chief Justice Roy Moore instructed probate judges to defy federal court rulings and refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
After a long legal battle, same-sex couples will finally be able to get married in more than half of Alabama's counties thanks to a federal judge who affirmed her ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban on Friday.
The lower house of Oklahoma's Legislature passed legislation that shields ministers who refuse to officiate same-sex marriage ceremonies from civil liability.
Officials in Mobile County, Alabama, on Thursday complied with an order from a federal judge compelling them to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama misled the nation when he claimed to oppose same-sex marriage in the 2008 presidential campaign, his longtime adviser David Axelrod writes in a new book.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request by Alabama's attorney general on Monday to keep same-sex marriages on hold until it decides later this year whether laws banning gay matrimony violate the U.S. Constitution.
As same-sex couples line up to file for marriage licenses, Alabama's Chief Justice Moore orders probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Many judges followed his order across the state.
Starting as early as next week, gay couples in Alabama will be allowed to get married for the first time ever due to a recent federal appeals court decision to deny a stay on a lower court ruling that overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
A gay couple from Mexico has been stopped from getting married four times. A gay couple from Mexico has been stopped from getting married four times. Victor Fernando Urias Amparo and Victor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza have not been allowed to marry because of Mexicali's mayor, Jaime Rafael Diaz Ochoa, and other officials.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide on the issue of same-sex marriage later on this year. The U. S. Supreme Court will decide on the issue of same-sex marriage later on this year.
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Michigan must recognize 300 same-sex marriages that were performed last March during a brief window when the state's ban on gay marriage was temporarily lifted by a court order.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which in October decided not to take up the issue of state bans on gay marriage, may be reconsidering. The justices will meet behind closed doors on Friday to once again review whether to hear cases on the contentious issue.
Miami-Dade County is the first Florida county to officially usher in the same-sex unions. Florida has become the 36th state where gay marriage is now legal.
E! will be the first American television network to broadcast a celebrity wedding between two men on February 5, 2015 with the special "Lance Loves Michael: The Lance Bass Wedding."
Finland's parliament legalized same-sex marriage over the weekend in a close vote. The archbishop of the country's Lutheran Church welcomed the vote, sparking mass resignations from the church.
Two federals in Mississippi and Arkansas have overturned their respective state's same-sex marriage bans. The moves come as court after court throughout the country, with one exception, continues to find gay marriage bans to be unconstitutional. The Mississippi and Arkansas governments both have said they will appeal.
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the Supreme Court sanctioned same-sex marriages in Kansas to continue, making it the 33rd state in which gay unions are permitted and lifting a provisional deferment issued two days prior by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
