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Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Effectively Nullify All Sides on Marriage
TenthAmendmentCenter ^

Posted on 05/29/2015 6:48:25 AM PDT by shove_it

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (May 23, 2015) – This week, the Alabama state Senate passed a bill that would end the practice of licensing marriages in the state, effectively nullifying both major sides of the contentious national debate over government-sanctioned marriage.

Introduced by Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Bay Minette), Senate Bill 377 (SB377) would end state issued marriage licenses, while providing marriage contracts as an alternative. It passed through the Alabama state Senate by a 22-3 margin on May 19.

“When you invite the state into those matters of personal or religious import, it creates difficulties,” Sen. Albritton said about his bill in April. “Go back long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Early twentieth century, if you go back and look and try to find marriage licenses for your grandparents or great grandparents, you won’t find it. What you will find instead is where people have come in and recorded when a marriage has occurred.”

The bill would replace all references to marriages “licenses” in state law with “contracts.” The legislation would not invalidate any marriage licenses issued prior to the bill being passed...

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; ssm
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Sounds like a plan.
1 posted on 05/29/2015 6:48:25 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it
It is really the only practical alternative in today's toxic environment. If the state can't issue a marriage license, it makes it more difficult for the homo lobby to seek out and destroy a Christian business for refusing to celebrate it.

Of course, the state will give up a little revenue from the licensing fee.

2 posted on 05/29/2015 6:51:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: shove_it

Yeah, the plan all along was to “destroy”, not broaden, the definition of marriage.


3 posted on 05/29/2015 6:52:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: shove_it

Might as well go all the way and eliminate the word ‘Marriage’ from the term, and just call it ‘Partnership Contract’.


4 posted on 05/29/2015 6:54:25 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: shove_it

The only original reason for licensing was to impose obligations (child support, alimony,) and protect future born (blood tests). It was never about conferring rights.


5 posted on 05/29/2015 6:57:05 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: shove_it

Why don’t they just pass a special bill that applies only to unions between persons of the same sex and leave the laws pertaining to marriage men and women intact?


6 posted on 05/29/2015 6:58:31 AM PDT by Rock N Jones
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To: shove_it

That’s another option. But what about the normal, sane people who aren’t degenerate faggots and just want to get married? I’m guessing go to Vegas.


7 posted on 05/29/2015 7:02:32 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Effectively Nullify All Sides on Marriage

The extreme minority of the 2% of the population that represent the sick weirdos that lust for unnatural sex have now overturned the long standing and socially functional laws which worked for the remaining 98% of the population.

The Tail wags the Dog.

8 posted on 05/29/2015 7:02:44 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: shove_it

This move is futile.

The only solution is divorce from the whore (federal government).


9 posted on 05/29/2015 7:07:21 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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Good. Marriage was and is a religious sacrament and the state should not be involved. If the state wants to issue a civil contract to those who feel they need it, fine but it has no business being involved in marriage.


10 posted on 05/29/2015 7:08:53 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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Churches can still unite a man and a woman in Holy Matrimony though. It's a religious thing.

Yeah. Leave the Holy unions to the churches and give the others some kind of paperwork so they'll get the benifits from it.

I think this is a pretty fair idea.

11 posted on 05/29/2015 7:10:44 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: shove_it

See proclamation of banns.


12 posted on 05/29/2015 7:21:02 AM PDT by crz
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To: shove_it

I love it!


13 posted on 05/29/2015 7:26:06 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: shove_it

If the feds want to control marriage, let them start issuing licenses. Get the states and counties out of the marriage business.


14 posted on 05/29/2015 7:27:10 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: fwdude

Regardless of what they do, the courts (Federal) will get the final say with a thumbs up or down decision.

More political show from politicians desperate to show they are resisting gay marriage when they will almost all roll over in the end, I suspect.


15 posted on 05/29/2015 7:42:02 AM PDT by Nextrush ( FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, DON'T BE PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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Worth watching. I'm bookmarking this.

Back when in 1870 or so when all my Catholic ancestors came to the USA from Rheinpfalz, Germany, the Catholic Church was opposed to the state institution of civil marriage. It was Bismarck who had pushed it through: licensing gave the German State the power to control something it clearly had no right to control, the institution of marriage.

16 posted on 05/29/2015 8:09:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra)
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To: max americana
That’s another option. But what about the normal, sane people who aren’t degenerate faggots and just want to get married? I’m guessing go to Vegas.

The Church, which has been marrying people long before the government, can continue to do so for those who wish it.

17 posted on 05/29/2015 8:13:23 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: shove_it

Best answer award! The queers can’t stomp they little feet and insist on something that doesn’t exist.


18 posted on 05/29/2015 8:21:14 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Timocrat

Agree. The state only got involved in order to extend its reach and power to make and enforce laws such as child support and alimony. Then it become a tool to hand out favored tax benefits. All in the cause of creating targeted social outcomes.


19 posted on 05/29/2015 8:26:17 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Nextrush
Regardless of what they do, the courts (Federal) will get the final say with a thumbs up or down decision.

That's why an absolute break (secession) is imperative. No free state can remain a part of this corrupt, anti-constitutional entity and remain free.

20 posted on 05/29/2015 8:30:27 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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