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    Same-Sex-Marriage Flashpoint Alabama Considers Getting Out Of The Marriage Business

    Several rural probate judges quit issuing licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. Now the state is considering doing away with marriage licenses.
    by Debbie Elliott Feb 27, 2018 3 minutes

    Couples – gay or straight — looking for a marriage license in Pike County, Ala. won't get one from local probate judge Wes Allen.

    "We have not issued any marriage licenses since Feb. 9, 2015," Allen says.

    That's when a federal judge struck down Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage. The state's then Chief Justice Roy Moore told local officials they weren't bound by the federal court ruling. That threw Alabama's marriage license system into chaos

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