Alabama lawmakers pass bill to end marriage licenses

[Mralexs]

Alabama lawmakers pass bill to end marriage licenses
The Alabama House of Representatives gave final passage today to a bill that would end the issuance of marriage licenses by probate judges and instead have them record documents that would serve as the official records of marriage.

So if this passes it means that you could be married anywhere by just provide documentation that a ceremony happened

[Octane]

So... If they're still documenting that it actually happened, then what is this actually accomplishing?

[DaCommie1]

I think this is to stop those people who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay people from being able to do that.

[Lone_Star94]

It's so they don't get weird looks at the court house when they marry their first cousin.

[Mralexs]

it means you don't have to get a judge to perform your marriage and it would recgonize civil unions

[Roll13]

That's oddly really progressive. What's the real reason they did this though? Definitely not because of LGBT stuff

[Borealis]

Because in eight counties, they stopped issuing marriages since gay marriage was legalized nearly 4 years ago

[Octane]

Oh, I didn't think of it that way. So yeah, this pretty good.

[JennyC6]

Now if only they'd omit the ceremony part. What's so bad about two people just going 'hey look we're married now' on their paperwork?

[Mralexs]

Thats common law and if I understand this correctly this will recognize that