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Alabama Supreme Court order creates confusion over same-sex marriage licenses
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — UPDATEX3: 32 of Alabama’s 67 counties are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 22 are waiting the 21 days until the Supreme Court ruling goes into effect. Several...
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Lawmakers, gay rights activists say their work is far from over
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — While droves of same sex couples and advocates celebrated the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling Friday, activists were back to work this weekend and this week fighting for more...
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Texas Attorney General says decision to issue same-sex marriage licenses up...
(WIAT) — Same-sex marriage is a hot topic here in Alabama, and it’s also making national news in Texas. Over the weekend, the state’s attorney general told clerks and judges they may object to issuing...
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Federal judge: Alabama counties must allow gay marriage
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – With a handful of Alabama counties still refusing to grant gay marriages even as they issued licenses for straight weddings, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that all must abide...
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Probate judges comply with federal order, begin issuing same-sex marriage...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — A new court order has same-sex couples saying “I do” for the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on Friday. “This order is crystal...
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Episcopalians vote to allow gay marriage in churches
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Episcopalians voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, solidifying the church’s embrace of gay rights that began more than a decade ago...
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Entire Tenn. county clerk’s office resigns over same-sex marriage licenses
DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – The employees of the Decatur County clerk’s office in west Tennessee have resigned from their positions. Clerk Gwen Pope and employees Sharon Bell and Mickey Butler all...
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Controversy reigns supreme as Americans celebrate Independence Day
(WIAT) — It may be the week our nation celebrates its independence, but controversy has reigned supreme on the topics of freedoms and laws. From the Confederate flag being removed at the State Capitol...
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Pastors facing discipline for attending gay wedding
CASSOPOLIS, Mich. (WOOD) — Several United Methodist pastors from West Michigan are facing the possibility of discipline after attending the wedding of a reverend who had to resign because he is gay....
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Committee approves bill to take Alabama out of marriage biz
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A state Senate committee has approved a bill to take Alabama probate judges out of the wedding license business following the U.S Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage....
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Supreme Court rules against clerk in gay marriage case
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a Kentucky county clerk who says her Christian faith should exempt her from having to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The...
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In contempt of U.S. Supreme Court, Ky. county clerk refuses marriage licenses...
MOREHEAD Ky. (AP) – A defiant county clerk in Kentucky has again refused to issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. On Tuesday morning, as Rowan...
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Judge jails Kentucky clerk for refusing marriage licenses
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage...
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Gay couples will try to wed as defiant clerk sits in jail
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — April Miller and Karen Roberts will return to the Rowan County Courthouse on Friday for the fifth time since June to ask for a marriage license. Only this time, clerk Kim Davis will...
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Gay Kentucky couple receives marriage license
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A gay couple emerged from a Kentucky county clerk’s office with a marriage license in hand Friday morning, embracing and crying as the defiant clerk who runs the office remained...
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Oregon judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages
MARION COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — A Marion County judge is under fire for reportedly refusing to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples. The news comes on the same day a Kentucky clerk was jailed for...
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Kentucky clerk appeals her jailing over gay marriage
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Attorneys for the Kentucky clerk who was jailed last week because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples said Monday they have filed an emergency motion with a...
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Huckabee to join rally for clerk opposed to gay marriage
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a Tuesday rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell over her refusal...
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Clerk who denied gay marriage licenses goes back to work
GRAYSON, Ky. (AP) — After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work this week to face another day of...
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Tennessee store owner sells out of anti-gay merchandise
WASHBURN (WATE) – At Jeff Amyx’s hardware store in Grainger County there’s no smoking and no service without shoes and a shirt, but what’s causing all the commotion is his “no gays allowed” rule. Amyx...
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