A Pro-LGBT website has ranked the states according to their policies and laws. Alabama ranks last. California first.
HERE is a link to the interactive map to see how your state ranks.
Despite the SCOTUS decision, some probate judges in Alabama are taking their toys and going home, saying they will not issue ANY marriage licenses rather than follow the court's ruling.
That sounds a bit like the 1960's reaction to the integration of public swimming pools.
Birmingham and other cities simply closed the pools and filled them in.
I was told by a longtime Birmingham resident that one of those pools was on what is now called University Boulevard near St. Vincent's Hospital in the Lakeview part of the city...where a McDonalds now stands. Should there be an historic site sign there?
I suppose it could have been worse. There's the infamous photo showing a motel manager in St. Augustine Florida emptying a bottle of an acid used to clean pools into the one at the motel because black residents were in it.
UPDATE: The Alabama GOP reaction to the marriage ruling makes it sound like Alabama would do the right thing...if only those pesky Supreme Court Justices would just leave us alone:
The Guardian Newspaper has a rundown of reaction elsewhere in The South.
[Saturday Data is a regular feature of www.TimLennox.com]
HERE is a link to the interactive map to see how your state ranks.
Despite the SCOTUS decision, some probate judges in Alabama are taking their toys and going home, saying they will not issue ANY marriage licenses rather than follow the court's ruling.
Birmingham and other cities simply closed the pools and filled them in.
I was told by a longtime Birmingham resident that one of those pools was on what is now called University Boulevard near St. Vincent's Hospital in the Lakeview part of the city...where a McDonalds now stands. Should there be an historic site sign there?
I suppose it could have been worse. There's the infamous photo showing a motel manager in St. Augustine Florida emptying a bottle of an acid used to clean pools into the one at the motel because black residents were in it.
UPDATE: The Alabama GOP reaction to the marriage ruling makes it sound like Alabama would do the right thing...if only those pesky Supreme Court Justices would just leave us alone:
“Our boundaries have been breached once again by the overreaching hand of the federal judicial system. The majority of the people in Alabama lost their voice today. Alabamians are kind and loving people and our reputation for our hospitality and care for others is known across the land, however we also guard our rights to make our own decisions. Today Alabama’s vast majority on this topic was silenced."Statement of Terry Lathan, Alabama GOP Chair
The Guardian Newspaper has a rundown of reaction elsewhere in The South.
[Saturday Data is a regular feature of www.TimLennox.com]
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