Alabama Federal Judge: Marriage Equality Must Begin in Every County. Now.

Source: Human Rights Campaign

Today, HRC put the spotlight on a new and crystal-clear order from Judge Callie V.S. Granade, a federal judge in Alabama, declaring in a matter argued by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) that all probate judges in the state must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples immediately.

“This order is crystal clear, and it should remove the cotton that Chief Justice Roy Moore has been stuffing in probate judges’ ears across this state,” said HRC Alabama director Patricia Todd. “Marriage equality must begin everywhere, and couples who have been waiting, in many cases, two or three decades to get married shouldn’t have to wait a minute longer.”

The order reflected broader progress to implement the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling across the South.

In Louisiana, an interactive map compiled by The Advocate found that the vast majority of parishes are issuing marriage licenses to committed and loving same-sex couples, despite some suggestions that early comments by Governor Bobby Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell would lead to mass resistance to the ruling.

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