Alabama Senate passes bill ending marriage licenses to loophole around judges

[Borealis]

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/03/21/alabama-senate-approves-bill-end-marriage-licenses/3235747002/

The Alabama Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would eliminate marriage licenses and the need to solemnize marriages. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Range,
passed 26 to 0. It moves onto the House. Albritton, who first filed the bill in 2015, said it “takes the state out of granting permission, saying who can marry or who can’t.”

During a brief floor debate, Albritton said the measure aimed to resolve an issue with probate judges in the state who stopped issuing marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court
struck down state bans on same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. The senator said at least seven and possibly as many 10 of the 68 probate judges in Alabama had
stopped issuing marriage licenses.

Instead of issuing marriage licenses, two people getting married would submit affidavits or forms to a probate judge, who would then record the marriage. The marriage would be
considered to take place the day the individuals signed the affidavit. It would also eliminate the requirement for a ceremony for nuptials.

Yeah eight counties have stopped issuing marriages altogether for over four years now.

[Zakk]

I've lived here for almost 20 years and it still gives me the giggles over how uppity people get around here over "Faggots getting married"

[Clovis]

Weird to see something good coming from Alabama that isn't meth.

[Sableye]

um this would seem illegal as marriage status is required for the tax code and there's also other laws prohibiting marriage between minors and between older people and minors. The marriage license was for tax and legal purposes to begin with

[Download]

You need to reread the OP.

[nied]

hell yeah. fuck them judges. finally, good AL news