MOBILE, Ala. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered an Alabama official to start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in compliance with an earlier order, but couples in most counties ...

Although a federal judge struck down Alabama’s same sex marriage ban on Friday, the the judges responsible for issuing marriage licenses will not begin giving them to gay couples. According to the ...

A bill to eliminate marriage licenses in Alabama and instead have couples file affidavits and forms for recording by county probate judges moved closer to becoming law on Wednesday. The House ...

Gay couples began getting married in Alabama on Monday morning, despite an 11th-hour attempt from the state's chief justice - an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage- to block the weddings. The U.S ...

The chief justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court issued an order to all probate judges Wednesday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. According to Judge Roy Moore, a previous order ...

March 4 (Reuters) - Local judges across Alabama on Wednesday stopped issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in compliance with a ruling a day earlier by the Alabama Supreme Court that was in ...

A lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center is challenging policies in several Alabama counties that, the center says, bar undocumented immigrants from getting marriage licenses. The lawsuit is ...

Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court gave the country a glimpse of the future that Republicans are working toward. In an entirely predictable and reprehensible ruling, the court ruled that embryos ...

CLANTON, Ala. (AP) - Confusion reigns in Alabama over gay marriage, days after the first same-sex wedding licenses were issued in the Deep South state. Probate judges say it's been a bewildering week ...