How Alabama politics are motivating a legal showdown over gay marriage

4,587 views · Published 9 February 2015 · 4:36 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2015 · News & Politics

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In 2006, Alabama voters overwhelmingly passed a ban on gay marriage. Last month a federal court lifted that law, but the state’s supreme court chief justice ordered judges to ignore the ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal to uphold the ban, allowing same-sex unions and setting up a legal showdown over state rights. Judy Woodruff talks to Joseph Smith of the University of Alabama.

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