Alabama standoff over same-sex marriage channels George Wallace

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 10, 2015 | Doug Mataconis

[ConservingFreedom]

Same-sex marriages went forward Monday in Alabama, for the most part, notwithstanding an effort by the Chief Justice of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Amid conflicting signals from federal courts and the chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, some Alabama counties began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday in a legal showdown with echoes of the battles over desegregation in the 1960s.

In major county seats like Birmingham, Montgomery and Huntsville, gay couples lined up outside courthouses as they opened, and emerged smiling, licenses in hand, after being wed by clerks or by the judges themselves.

At the Jefferson County Courthouse here, Judge Michael G. Graffeo of Circuit Court officiated, at times tearfully, at the civil wedding of Dinah McCaryer and Olanda Smith, the first to emerge from the crowd of same-sex couples who lined up Monday morning. “I now pronounce Olanda and Dinah are married spouses, entitled to all rights and privileges, as well as all responsibilities, afforded and placed upon them by the State of Alabama,” Judge Graffeo said. [...]

[manc]

I;ts about time people stood up to the federal over reach activist judges and got the 10th amendment and religious freedom back

[silverleaf]

they maybe not be smiling when their taxes go up (”marriage tax”)

[Dr. Thorne]

Christian Science is neither.

[a fool in paradise]

“I now pronounce Olanda and Dinah are married spouses”

Something is queer about this equation and even the justice of the peace knows it is lunacy to say “I now pronounce you wife and wife.”

[manc]

As far as I know it’s a liberal rag pretending to be Christian but then again the left always infiltrate and use the name game to advance their agenda

[manc]

met a woman who told me that the woman next to her was married. I told her she was not and she replied that the woman was her wife.
I told her she is not and told her she needs help.

I got called a few names and she stormed off and it was well worth it letting them know not all of us are cowards and will not accept their agenda

[quantumman]

Onion headline?

[ConservingFreedom]

they maybe not be smiling when their taxes go up (”marriage tax”)

There's no 0bama perversion credit?

[a fool in paradise]

Words mean things. I was reading an article from the 1920s where a photographer (Paul Strand?) was making a point about this. He said that the word ‘artist’ means nothing if it is applied uncritically to anyone using the tools of artists.

[Da Coyote]

Nice try.

Sorry, but I’m on the Alabama judge side.

FU, Supremes.

FU until the chickens come home.

FU until Obama reveals his records.

FU until Bubba is arrested for his rapes.

[ConservingFreedom]

I’m on the Alabama judge side.

Ditto - states' rights must remain a bedrock of American conservatism.

[a fool in paradise]

“Lawyer, libertarian, #Yankees fan, blogger. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”

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[Regulator]

The same play over and over.

The Left equates any rules with race discrimination and declares any behavior a civil right.

Discrimination is legal. The only illegal discrimination is that which our society is deemed wrong and enshrined it in our Constitution.

The queers are not the moral equivalent of black people. No black person can change his race. But a queer can stop behaving the way he does, and should. So there is no right to legal protection for that behavior.

So the notion that prohibiting queers from hijacking the language and institutions in an effort to destroy them is the same as segregation is absurd.

[MrB]

Ah... always bringing up slavery and racism in order to advance the leftist agenda.

Like clockwork.

[MrB]

Discrimination is legal.

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As Walter Williams said - I discriminated against every other woman in the world when I married my wife. Sorry ladies. You’ll just have to deal with it.

[manc]

it’s all they have.
They used the police shootings to have groups against groups.

War on women, war on blacks, war on Hispanics, I’m sick of it

[SoFloFreeper]

No, it channels Moses.

[cdcdawg]

SOoooooo, after gay marriage is forced on Alabama, marriage will be in as good of condition as Alabama’s public schools?

I realize that’s provocative, but it’s an illustration of how the Road to Hell is often paved. Wallace was bad for opposing desegregation. His opponents, the supporters of desegregation, were good for supporting it. So far, so good. Those are probably perfectly reasonable moral judgments. The public schools have gone into the toilet since desegregation. Good intentions don’t always deliver their promised results.

Imagine the outcome when the stated goal is immoral on its face. Desegregation and rights for all people was at least a noble goal; is gay marriage even that? I’m sure most who support it do so because of “fairness” and “equality” and so forth. Others undoubtedly do so as a means of attacking our culture and institutions. Liberals can hate Wallace all they want (while sending their children to exclusive, private schools), but they never have to look at the results of their Utopian schemes.

[Boowhoknew]

MM, (I) We could sure use some George Wallace about now.