Alabama Counties To Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – An attorney for a gay couple says they have received a marriage license in an Alabama county that had earlier refused to grant it to them.

Attorney David Kennedy said Thursday the couple was wed in Mobile County, just hours after a federal judge ordered the county to start issuing gay marriage licenses.

The county had refused after Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore told probate judges on Sunday they didn’t have to.

U.S. District Judge Callie Granade overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage last month and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stop gay marriages from beginning Monday. Granade on Thursday ordered Mobile County to issue the licenses, signaling to probate judges across the state that they should do the same.