Breaking: Another Victory For Marriage In Alabama!

For the second time, a federal judge has again struck down Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. What does this mean now?

Late Friday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Callie V. Granade ruled Alabama’s ban on same-sex couples marrying was unconstitutional, and struck it down, effective immediately. No couples were able to marry over the weekend, and by Sunday night Judge Grenade placed a stay on her ruling in the case, Searcy v. Strange, after Alabama state officials demanded one.

On Monday, Judge Grenade in a separate case, again struck down Alabama’s marriage ban, this time placing a two-week hold on the ruling.

The case, Strawser v. Strange, was filed by Alabama couple James Strawser and John Humphrey.

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“Humphrey, 38, said he did not have the highest level of confidence when he and Strawser filed the federal lawsuit in September. Alabama is a conservative state, he noted, and the couple did not even have a lawyer,” AL.com reports.

“I am just ecstatically pleased. We didn’t realize it would be so soon and did not even think she would consider it,” Humphrey said. “This is the Bible Belt for Christ sake.”

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has already appealed the first case, Searcy v. Strange, to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and has already announced he will also appeal this one to the 11th Circuit too.

The couple, as the video above says, have a GoFundme account – this appears to be it, but we have not been able to confirm it. 

 

Image and video via WKRG
Hat tip: Freedom to Marry