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Alabama Chief Justice Orders Judges to Refuse Gay Marriage Licenses
Aleksander Chan · 02/09/15 08:55AMOn the eve of the first legal gay marriages in Alabama, the state's chief justice, Roy S. Moore, issued an order to the state's probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A federal judge struck down Alabama's ban on and constitutional amendment against gay marriage last month.
Billboard Calling for "#White Genocide" Towers Over Alabama Highway
Aleksander Chan · 01/13/15 01:15PM5-Year-Old Who Drew Pretend Crayon-Gun Made to Sign No-Suicide Contract
Jay Hathaway · 10/10/14 01:30PMPastor's Sermons: I Have AIDS and I Had Sex With Congregants
Taylor Berman · 10/09/14 09:51AMAlabama "Rape Bait" Case Is Spectacularly Callous and Evil
Allie Jones · 10/03/14 02:53PMIn 2010, a teacher's aide carried out a plan to use a special needs student—a 14-year-old girl—as rape "bait" to "catch" a male student who had a history of sexual violence. More details in the case against Sparkman Middle School administrators were revealed today by The Huntsville Times, and they are gruesome.
Fired UPS Employee Kills Two Workers, Himself in Warehouse Shooting
Andy Cush · 09/23/14 03:25PMHoly Shit Look at This Giant Alligator Pulled Out of an Alabama Swamp
Aleksander Chan · 08/18/14 12:38PMIt took an Alabama family five hours to wrestle a 15-foot-long alligator from a swamp in Camden, Ala. over the weekend—the largest legal alligator killing by an Alabama hunter ever. After breaking a winch used to weigh gator catches, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Biologists used a backhoe to lift the gator's body, which came in at 1,011.5 pounds.
Thousands of Girls Still Dying to Pledge Alabama's Racist Sororities
Allie Jones · 08/11/14 11:57AMIt's sorority rush week at the University of Alabama, and over 2,250 girls—the most to ever rush at Alabama or any school in the country—are currently marching from house to house, grit-smiling their way through small talk and idiotic skits in the hopes of becoming Chi Os or KDs. This is just one year after the student paper revealed that these all-white organizations purposely blocked black women from membership well into the 21st century.
Federal Judge Rules Alabama Abortion Clinic Law Unconstitutional
Allie Jones · 08/04/14 01:10PMA federal judge ruled today that Alabama's abortion clinic law is unconstitutional. The law, passed last year, mandates that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and it would have closed three of the state's five abortion clinics. The law never went into effect, so the clinics have stayed open.
Alabama Congressman Is Really Bummed About Obama's "War on Whites"
Adam Weinstein · 08/04/14 12:32PMMo Brooks has been a congressman ever since 2011, after the then-56-year-old was named one of the Republican National Committee's "Young Guns." He's one of the House's most conservative members. Also, he believes immigration is "part of a war on whites" in America, according to a radio interview today.
Drunken Woman Rides Horse to Rob Store
Aleksander Chan · 07/07/14 08:41PMWoman Catfishes Her Niece, Finds Out Her Niece Wants to Kill Her
Andy Cush · 06/11/14 08:20AMThis Dog Is Only Half a Dog
Adam Weinstein · 06/06/14 10:35AMMeet Pig. Pig the dog of Birmingham, Alabama. She was the big new star of Do Dah Day. And y'all know how B'ham is about its Do Dah Day dogs, bless their hearts. Pig is kinda screwed-up, aesthetically, which of course just deepens the Five Tuesdays In Heaven With Marley and Me narrative potential, fulfilled here by the Birmingham News' Joey Kennedy:
Church Billboard Quotes Hitler on the Importance of Educating the Kids
Adam Weinstein · 06/03/14 02:05PMAlabama Republican Gets Right to the Point With This Gun Parade Float
Adam Weinstein · 04/22/14 12:00PMKathleen Parker Thinks It's "Crazy" to Talk About Racism in Alabama
Tom Scocca · 04/16/14 12:53PMU. of Alabama Greeks Win Fight For Their Right to Be Racist Dicks
Adam Weinstein · 03/24/14 03:01PMLast summer, the University of Alabama campus was rocked by allegations that the fabled Greek scene was racist. Well, not allegations: The school's all-white sororities rejected two women because they weren't white. The school's student Senate had a chance to fix things. But last week, they said "fuck it."