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Franklin Graham Weighs in on AL Marriages -State Supreme Court Orders Judges to Explain Why They Should Issue ‘Gay’ Licenses
Bob Unruh / WND
Christian evangelist Franklin Graham, who heads both the relief and development group Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has weighed in on the dispute in Alabama on whether courts can order states to acknowledge and support same-sex marriage as they have in dozens of other states.
His Facebook posting takes the dozens of orders from mostly federal judges across the country that have imposed same-sex marriage on populations that voted against the idea and puts them in perspective.
“No earthly court has jurisdiction over the infallible Word of God,” he said.
Graham noted the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state of Alabama must recognize same-sex marriages in spite of that state’s overwhelming vote to prohibit them. Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is defying the order, asking state probate judges not to issue licenses to gay couples.
“I applaud Justice Moore and the many Alabama judges who are upholding the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman,” Graham said.
Only a handful of states have imposed same-sex marriage by a state court or legislative action. And voters in most of those states voted against allowing or recognizing homosexual marriage.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which includes two justices who already publicly have endorsed homosexual marriage by performing ceremonies, is scheduled to hear arguments in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, the Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ordered the state’s probate judges, the only ones in the state authorized to issue marriage licenses, to refrain from issuing licenses to same-sex duos.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/franklin-graham-weighs-in-on-alabama-marriages/
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