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What Roy Has Wrought: Alabama Supreme Court Tries Desperate Tactic To Block Same-Sex Unions

Mar 4, 2015 by Rob Boston in Wall of Separation

Last night the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling ordering an end to same-sex marriages in the state.

This was a very curious action. As you may recall, a federal court earlier this year declared Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court both declined to stay this ruling. This paved the way for same-sex marriages to begin in Alabama on Feb. 9. Read more

Ala. Chief Justice Urges Defiance Of Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Mar 2, 2015

An infamous Alabama jurist’s pledge of defiance on legalized same-sex marriage has landed him in hot water.

In January, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his job in 2003 over his refusal to remove a Decalogue display from a courthouse, wrote to Gov. Robert Bentley and urged him to continue to deny same-sex couples the right to marry, even though a federal court struck down the state’s ban on such marriages.

In his letter to Bentley, Moore insisted that the state of Alabama is free to ignore rulings by federal courts. Read more

Moore Nonsense: AU Gears Up To Battle An Old Foe

Mar 2, 2015

Alabama’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore is a crackpot. There, I’ve said it.

I like to be a polite person, but this man’s behavior is so beyond the pale, I can’t think of any other way to put it. Why? Let me count the ways.

Judge Moore was the belligerent jurist who in 2001, shortly after his election as chief justice, erected a two-and-one-half ton monument containing his favorite version of the Ten Commandments in the state Judicial Building.  Read more

Americans United Will Represent Same-Sex Couples Seeking Marriage Licenses in Alabama

Clients in Baldwin, Barbour, Houston And Lauderdale Counties Denied Licenses By Probate Judges

Feb 11, 2015

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has agreed to represent four same-sex couples in Alabama who have been denied marriage licenses.

The couples reside in Baldwin, Barbour, Houston and Lauderdale counties. Each couple visited the probate judge in their respective county to request a marriage license, but all were denied.
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Bad History: Another Ala. Official Thinks The Constitution Is Based On The Ten Commandments

Aug 26, 2014 by Simon Brown in Wall of Separation

An Alabama official wants to display the Ten Commandments outside a county courthouse, and he thinks he can justify the location of said monument by arguing that the famous list of biblical laws simply isn’t religious.

Instead, said Jackson County Commissioner Tim Guffey (R), he just wants people to know the supposed basis behind America’s most famous documents. Read more

Silence Is Golden: Ala. School Board Opens Meetings With Moment Of Reflection – For Now

May 15, 2014 by Simon Brown in Wall of Separation

The Hoover, Ala., School Board recently reinstated an old pre-meeting prayer policy, but it’s not as bad as you might think.

I know, I know. This is Alabama – home of “Ten Commandments judge” Roy Moore who thinks the First Amendment only applies to Christians. Read more

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