Gay Marriage in Alabama

Federal courts have cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin in Alabama on Monday, but in a last-ditch effort to stop the weddings, the famously conservative chief justice of the state Supreme Court has instructed probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

With same-sex marriages set to begin in Alabama on Monday, the state’s firebrand Supreme Court chief justice has ordered local officials to deny marriage licenses to gay couples.