49 of 67 Alabama Counties Refuse to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

As of Monday afternoon, 49 of 67 counties in Alabama refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses in Alabama, Montgomery Advertiser's Brian Lyman reports. Even though a federal judge has struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has ordered the probate judges not to issue same-sex marriages. The U.S. Supreme Court also refused to grant a stay against the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses.

U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade, who struck down the state's ban on same-sex matrimony, denied a motion for contempt against Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses, ruling that the parties had not yet shown they were harmed by a failure for the constitution to be followed.