[Buncha jerks.
The best quote in the whole story is this:[
](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAY_MARRIAGE_ALABAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-03-03-23-47-35)As I thought about it, I had to wonder: when isn’t Alabama on the wrong side of history? :dubious:
Jesus Christ. Obama really is going to have to send in the 101st Airborne, isn’t he?
Should probably just go ahead and make it the official state motto at this point.
It’s too bad “the rest of the union” couldn’t put a Cuba style embargo on Alabama. Imagine Alalbama then: cut off, stuck in the past, everyone driving around in really old cars, everything in black and white…
On second thought, they’d really like that.
So what happens if the Alabama Supreme Court refuses to obey the inevitable ruling of the US Supreme Court?
ALABAMA
On The Wrong Side Of History
I’m betting they could come up with a pretty interesting license plate.
We’ll have a near-repeat of the National Guard incidents of the past, except this time Alabama will blink before the disastrous photographs can be taken. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth and that’s it.
I can almost see the ads in the next Governor’s election…
“As a Justice on the Alabama Sate Supreme Court I stood up for the values Alabama holds dear. I didn’t back down to the thugs in the federal government and as your next Governor I’ll continue that fight!”
“Procreation nah, procreation tomorrah, procreation fo-evah!”
Their opinion. Or, more accurately, their hissy fit. 148 pages long, so I haven’t had a chance to go through it, and I may not because just reading the first part was difficult and time consuming.
I always assumed Alabama’s state motto was “At least we’re not Mississippi!” but I may have to do some research.
From my quick perusal, the Court seems to be saying that the federal court ruling requiring the issuance of marriage licenses to same sex couples is limited to only the part of Alabama that is covered by the federal court, and that for the rest of Alabama, the ban on same sex marriage still stands. They play fast and loose with the jurisdictional issues (one judge even dissented on that ground), but they don’t seem to be saying that the federal court’s ruling has no power over them, only that it has no power over the rest of Alabama, which is technically true.
An article on how wrong Alabama is, their weird reasoning, and internal contradictions. I can only hope that enough probate judges ignore them like they’ve ignored the SCOTUS. And somebody throw Moore in jail please
I look at how obsessed they are with the concept of gay sex, and ask, “Why reward them?”
Actually, if I read it correctly, the Supreme Court actually does say:
“Further, and pursuant to relator Judge Enslen’s request that this Court, “by any and all lawful means available to it,” ensure compliance with Alabama law with respect to the issuance of marriage licenses, each of the probate judges in this State other than the named respondents and Judge Davis are joined as respondents in the place of the “Judge Does” identified in the petition.”
Perhaps the Alabama Supreme Court does think that all judges in the State, including those subject to the federal order, are banned from doing same sex marriages.
Something like this:
ALABAMA
On The Wrong Side Of History Since
EVER
College football?
The 1970 USC game. Jerry Claiborne, a former Bryant assistant, said, “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King did in 20 years.”
I though I heard they were suspending ALL marriages in the county. What a bunch of cretins.
No, that would prevent a lot of cretins. Even if it does piss off a lot of pairs of cousins.