Participants at a same-sex marriage demonstration at the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Alabama.

They are holding signs that read, "'If the world hate you, know that it hated me before it hated you' John 15:18" and "Please Do Not Pet or Feed the Gays." Despite federal court rulings legalizing same-sex marriage in early 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court ordered that p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Christiane
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/robinson/id/2133
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Summary:They are holding signs that read, "'If the world hate you, know that it hated me before it hated you' John 15:18" and "Please Do Not Pet or Feed the Gays." Despite federal court rulings legalizing same-sex marriage in early 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court ordered that probate judges stop issuing licenses to those couples on March 3 of that year. In response, Dothan citizens held two events on March 22: an "I Support Biblical Marriage Rally" at Ridgecrest Baptist Church and a counter-demonstration (organized by Equality Wiregrass) at the Dothan Civic Center. (The rally was initially set to take place at the civic center, too, and many of the counter-protestors reassembled outside the church later in the afternoon.)