Thursday, April 30, 2015

Alabama lawmakers push forward bill eliminating marriage licenses...

A Senate committee approved a bill Wednesday that would get rid of the license requirement for couples seeking to marry.

Although the bill does not explicitly address the issue, Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Range, the bill's sponsor, told Senate Judiciary Committee members that the bill was a reaction to the standoff between a federal court and the Alabama Supreme Court over the legal status of same-sex marriage. Albritton described it as a way of "bringing order out of chaos."

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