article_snippet: Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered probate judges in the state to stop issuing licenses for same-sex marriages.
article_snippet: In February, a federal court decision in Mobile County had cleared the path for same-sex marriages to begin in the state.
article_snippet: Past and present clash over same-sex marriage in Deep South .
article_snippet: Marriage is between one man and one woman under Alabama law, the order states.
article_snippet: Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to state law.
article_snippet: Nothing in the United States Constitution alters or overrides a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to this law," a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to this law says.
article_snippet: Same-sex couples in #Alabama should not lose hope because of out-of-step Supreme Court ruling; #marriage fight is far from over.
article_snippet: The Liberty Counsel, which filed an emergency petition to the state's Supreme Court said on the state's Supreme Court website that "the ruling of the state's Supreme Court offers the most forceful and clearly articulated rebuttal to date of the imaginative arguments for same-sex "marriage" employed by federal courts.
article_snippet: Justice Greg Shaw added that the federal courts should have stayed an order striking down Alabama's marriage law until the state's Supreme Court rules on it this fall.
article_snippet: Nebraska ordered to end same-sex marriage ban .
highlights_snippet: A federal judge in Mobile had cleared way for same-sex marriages .
  
highlights_snippet: Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday said state law cannot be overridden by federal ruling .
  