From Yahoo:
"Federal judge strikes down gay-marriage ban in Alabama"
Alabama became the latest state to see its ban on gay marriage fall to a federal court ruling Friday, as the issue of same-sex marriage heads to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Callie V.S. Granade ruled in favor of two Mobile women who sued to challenge Alabama's refusal to recognize their marriage performed in California. Alabama was among just 14 U.S. states where gay and lesbian couples were still barred from legally marrying. Judges have also struck down the ban recently in several other Southern states, including the Carolinas, Florida, and Virginia. The bans have been upheld in Kentucky and Tennessee, two of the cases that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in April. Alabama is the latest of numerous states where federal judges have ruled the bans unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases asking it to overturn gay-marriage bans that lower courts have upheld in Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio. The appeals from gay and lesbian plaintiffs are also asking the high court to declare that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry everywhere in the United States. In Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota and Texas, judges have struck down anti-gay marriage laws, but they remain in effect pending appeals.
^ Slowly, but surely all the bans will be struck down and homosexuals will finally have equal civil rights in the US. ^
http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-strikes-down-gay-marriage-ban-alabama-002032316.html;_ylt=AwrSyCPP5cNU.mkAI6DQtDMD
"Federal judge strikes down gay-marriage ban in Alabama"
Alabama became the latest state to see its ban on gay marriage fall to a federal court ruling Friday, as the issue of same-sex marriage heads to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Callie V.S. Granade ruled in favor of two Mobile women who sued to challenge Alabama's refusal to recognize their marriage performed in California. Alabama was among just 14 U.S. states where gay and lesbian couples were still barred from legally marrying. Judges have also struck down the ban recently in several other Southern states, including the Carolinas, Florida, and Virginia. The bans have been upheld in Kentucky and Tennessee, two of the cases that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in April. Alabama is the latest of numerous states where federal judges have ruled the bans unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases asking it to overturn gay-marriage bans that lower courts have upheld in Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio. The appeals from gay and lesbian plaintiffs are also asking the high court to declare that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry everywhere in the United States. In Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota and Texas, judges have struck down anti-gay marriage laws, but they remain in effect pending appeals.
^ Slowly, but surely all the bans will be struck down and homosexuals will finally have equal civil rights in the US. ^
http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-strikes-down-gay-marriage-ban-alabama-002032316.html;_ylt=AwrSyCPP5cNU.mkAI6DQtDMD
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