Alabama widower seeks same-sex marriage recognition

[JURIST] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) [advocacy website] on Thursday announced a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] filed in US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama [official website] on behalf of widower Paul Hard [university profile] challenging Alabama's Marriage Protection Act and Sanctity Marriage Amendment (Sanctity Laws) which refuse to recognize same sex marriages performed outside the state. Hard married David Fancher in Massachusetts in 2011, and Fancher died in Alabama [SPLC press release] three months later following a...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/02/alabama-widower-seeks-same-sex-marriage-recognition.php

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