Judge backs Alabama same-sex weddings
Same-sex couple in Mobile County, Alabama must be allowed to marry, a US federal judge has ruled.
Four couples had raised the action after the local judge refused to issue marriage licences to gay couples.
The judge overturned a state-wide ban on gay marriage last month but a plea from Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, telling judges not to issue licences, had caused confusion.
Gary O'Donoghue reports from Washington.
12 Feb 2015
- From the section US & Canada