Tag: marriage
Parker Snider: Three years after Obergefell
In June of 2015, same-sex marriage became legal in all fifty states.
The Supreme Court ruled in the Obergefell v. Hodges case in favor of Jim Obergefell,...
Bill to remove marriage licenses passes Alabama Senate
The Alabama Senate approved a bill on Wednesday to remove marriage licenses and begin a new process under which probate judges would accept affidavits from couples...
Panel sends Alabama chief justice’s ethics case to trial
A state judicial panel on Monday refused to dismiss an ethics complaint against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, saying that Moore will go to...
Senate passes bill taking state out of marriage business
The Alabama Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would abolish the requirement that state probate judges sign off on marriages. To replace the age-old...
Committee votes to do away with Alabama marriage licenses
Alabama lawmakers are considering legislation to take the state out of the marriage business in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing...
Getting the state out of the marriage business
This past June, I wrote a guest editorial column published on AL.Com Here's an idea: Get the government out of marriage all together. In...
Here’s an idea: Get the government out of marriage all together
With the recent challenge to the Alabama law defining marriage between a man and a woman, and judicial actions throughout the nation that threaten...
