Blog Post #3

Federal judge: Alabama judges must issue gay marriage licenses

     The Alabama chief justice continues to decline the Supreme Court's mission to legalize same-sex marriage for his personal belief that marriage should continue to be based off of traditional or biblical standards. The chief justice has ordered the lower courts of Alabama to not follow the federal court's overturning the ban on same-sex marriage. This is difficult for the lower level judges because they are being told by the federal court to allow gay marriage and being told by the Alabama chief justice to not.
      This is related to our government class because it involves the different levels of court and discusses flaws in the judicial system along with discussing controversial political topics (same-sex marriage, abortion, etc.) that we often discuss in class. I think it's awful that even though the ban has been overturned same-sex couples are still unable to be married because of a person's opinions that are only influential because they have political/judicial power. I don't understand how this doesn't count as separation of church and state but I think it's great that we're making progress

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/politics/alabama-gay-marriage-licenses/index.html