In a challenge to Alabama’s Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a stay of any consequences of the Court’s ruling, paving the way for same-sex marriages in Alabama to begin sometime next week.
A stay was placed on the case by District Court Judge Callie Granade, preventing implementation of her decision that the ban is unconstitutional until February 9, allowing Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange time to appeal. Alabama had asked to keep the stay in place until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue of gay marriage later this year. The 11th Circuit denied that request.
The Plaintiff’s have now filed a motion to lift the stay, and since the Appeal has been denied, there is nothing standing in the way of same-sex couples in Alabama to exercise their rights to be married under Alabama law.
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