HRC LIVE UPDATES: Alabama Marriage Equality
#SCOTUS denies stay in AL! Sorry Judge Moore, but Alabamians are getting married today. #LGBT Read our statement: pic.twitter.com/uxWP7hHL70— SPLC (@splcenter) February 9, 2015
Today, absent further action by the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban will expire, making it the 37th state with marriage equality on the books. In hopes of this historic moment, HRC Alabama Field Organizer Tori Sission and her partner Shante Wolfe have been camping outside of the Montgomery Courthouse, hoping to be one of the first same-sex couples to marry in the state.
For weeks, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore has taken every measure possible — bordering a flagrant disregard of Alabama law — to block loving, committed same-sex couples like Sission and Wolfe from marrying today.
In a last ditch effort late last night — and a clear violation of all codes of legal ethics, boundaries of jurisdiction, and moral decency, Chief Justice Moore issued an order commanding all probate judges in the state to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.