Montgomery County Marriage Law

court in the state. A 5-4 decision by The United States Supreme Court on June 26th, 2015 ended all state bans on same-sex marriage and requires all fifty states to recognize marriages legally performed in other states. Immediately after this historic decision was made, in disobedience of the Supreme Court, Texas’ attorney general said, “that county clerks can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if they object on religious grounds.” This was Texas’ initial reaction to the ruling. Former

Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics”, Peter Montgomery stated, “As individuals, public officials and public employees enjoy the same religious liberty protections as all Americans… However, a public official has no right to cite religious beliefs as a reason for failing to uphold the duties of their office or for discriminating against some constituents….” Considering this, public officials are free to express

protesting. The boycott of the bus system lasted 13 months and had almost a 100% success rate, meaning nearly all blacks avoided riding the bus. The supporters of the boycott did not escape mistreatment by both the typical Caucasian citizen and by local law enforcement. Parks and other supporters were overwhelmed with death threats throughout the duration of the boycott and many of them feared for their well-beings. In addition to all the threats, Parks also lost her job due to the sum of publicity from

of denying the law peacefully willing to accept the consequences because they don't agree with it. Throughout history Civil Disobedience has had nothing but positive impacts for our nation. The people are trying to improve the government the only way they know how. In 1847 Henry David Thoreau, a philosopher, wrote in his essay on civil disobedience “I ask, for not at once no government, but at once a better government.” A great example for a leap for rights would be the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On

change the lives for many African Americans but she helped equality for all men and women in the United States. By one brave women our world will be forever thankful. Rosa Parks was raised in her Grandparents house in pine level, Montgomery County, in Alabama. Her Mother's name was Leona Edwards and her father James McCauley was a carpenter. On February 4, 1913 Rosa was born, ya

slaves. Because people in the South felt they needed cheap labor in building land and because black people in Africa knew how to farm land like the ones in the South, they were taken from their homes and forced to come to America. Arriving in this county, they were sold to whites as slaves without rights or freedom. IN 1776, the American Colonies declared their freedom from Great Britain. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson write that “all men are created equal; that they are endowed

SEGREGATION SYSTEM 1890: Louisiana passed law requiring railroads to provide “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.” In the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that the “separate but equal” law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment—guarantees all Americans equal treatment under the law. States throughout nation, armed with the Plessy decision, passed Jim Crow laws—laws aimed at separating the races. Forbade marriage between blacks and whites and established

John Russell "Rusty" Houser -- the gunman in Thursday's movie theater shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana -- earned a law degree, operated taverns, ran for public office and loved political debate. He was something of a public figure in Columbus, Georgia. But he quietly landed in Lafayette this month, a 59-year-old man with a string of arrests and a record of "extreme erratic behavior," according to police and court documents. He had no known friends in town and was largely estranged from his family

Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist and humanitarian. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland around 1820-1825 and died in Boston, Massachusetts of pneumonia in 1913. She was born into slavery, but successfully escaped in 1849 to become a leading abolitionist, yet she returned many times to rescue both family members and non-relatives from the plantation system. She led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

parent (NCP), Mark Marshall, that he was married to a woman in Alabama in the 1990s; her name was Robin Sexton (now known as Robin Rushing) at the time. The NCP stated that during the course of his marriage, a child named Mathew Marshall was born on May 11, 1994. The NCP stated they divorced in Montgomery in 1995. He stated at the time the