{"id":222368,"date":"2015-02-09T18:03:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/?p=222368"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:03:25","slug":"statement-probate-judges-alabama-violating-federal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/?p=222368","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Probate Judges in Alabama Violating Federal Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Contact: Aaron Sarver, Communications Director, Campaign for Southern Equality, 773.960.2857 (c), <a href=\"mailto:aaron@southernequality.org\">aaron@southernequality.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Statement on Probate Judges in Alabama Violating Federal Law<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Asheville, N.C. (February 9, 2015) \u2013 \u201cProbate judges in every Alabama county should immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in accordance with today\u2019s action from the U.S. Supreme Court. Alabama families can\u2019t wait another day for the freedom to marry and the legal protections they deserve. This is a simple matter of law, justice and dignity,\u201d says Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, executive director of the Campaign for Southern Equality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">###<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Based in Asheville, North Carolina, the Campaign for Southern Equality is a non-profit organization that advocates for the full equality of LGBT individuals and families across the South.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernequality.org\/\">http:\/\/www.southernequality.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE Contact: Aaron Sarver, Communications Director, Campaign for Southern Equality, 773.960.2857 (c), aaron@southernequality.org &nbsp; Statement on Probate Judges in Alabama Violating Federal Law &nbsp; Asheville, N.C. (February 9, 2015) \u2013 \u201cProbate judges in every Alabama county should immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in accordance with today\u2019s action from the U.S. Supreme &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-latest-news","8":"without-featured-image"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"carolina","author_link":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}