Springfield, IL (KMOV) -- Illinois has given approval to a request by a Florida man to place a Festivus pole inside the Illinois State Capitol.

(AP) Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from his duties after a judicial panel found he urged defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark same-sex marriage decision, is appealing his lengthy suspension.

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied requests from Alabama officials to stay the ruling on same-sex marriages. Unless further action is taken, same-sex marriages can start in Alabama on Monday February 9.

Former half-term Governor of Alaska and failed 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been busy playing Santa Claus in Alabama to a pair of anti-gay congressmen with money from her political action committee Sarah PAC.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's stand against same-sex marriage regained ground Wednesday after the state's highest court ruled that its ban remains legal, despite federal court pressure to begin issuing licenses to gays and lesbians. But advocates said they're not giving up either - and that the justices in Montgomery will find themselves on history's losing side.

In a ruling that one legal activist said will put LGBT rights “on the chopping block,” the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 ruled 6 to 3 that the U.S. Constitution “does not prohibit” states from banning abortion.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama will be thrown into confusion and conflict if a federal court permits same-sex weddings to begin next week, the state’s attorney general’s office argued in a Monday court filing.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The state of Alabama is appealing a federal judge's order overturning its ban on same-sex marriage.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is not backing off from his position that probate judges shouldn't issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ As the days and hours ticked by until gay and lesbian couples began lining up for marriage licenses at Alabama courthouses, state Chief Justice Roy Moore said he kept waiting for someone to try to stop it.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he’s concerned that the recognition of same-sex marriages will lead to the recognition of marriages with multiple partners or marriages within a family.

(CNN) -- Alabama's chief justice on Wednesday directed probate judges in the state to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage, seven months after a landmark Supreme Court ruling legalized gay and lesbian nuptials nationwide.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s health department has distributed new marriage license forms to accommodate same-sex weddings that are expected to begin Monday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The couple whose lawsuit led to a judge overturning Alabama’s ban on gay marriage on Thursday urged an appellate court to let the ruling stand and reject the state’s effort to put it on hold.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's judicial building office overlooks Montgomery's Dexter Avenue, a history-soaked thoroughfare topped by the Alabama Capitol where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated president of the Confederacy and where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ended the 1965 march for voting rights.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for gay marriages to commence in Alabama.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A judge in Alabama granted a divorce to a same-sex couple a year after denying the same request.

(CNN) -- States struggling to define the question of marriage equality have an addition to their ranks: Alabama.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — An Alabama probate judge is asking the state's Supreme Court for a way out of issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Some Alabama counties are using a segregation-era law to avoid issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench Friday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, more than a decade after he got in trouble for refusing federal orders to move a Ten Commandments monument.

Alabama Representative Patricia Todd is enjoying her new celebrity status – for the most part.

A local Alabama man is using the story of his lesbian daughter’s death to fight against Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore.

Parents are throwing a fit over a flag meant to celebrate inclusivity.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A probate judge is asking the Alabama Supreme Court to concede that gay couples can marry in Alabama if the U.S. Supreme Court rules same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional later this year.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Mobile probate judge now faces conflicting direct orders from a federal judge and the Alabama Supreme Court regarding gay marriage.

An Alabama gay rights group and local realtors have accused Rep. Mike Rogers of making homophobic groups while speaking to a realtors group in Montgomery on Jan. 23.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, saying a previous federal ruling that gay-marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution does not preclude them from following state law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) – An investigator says a transgender teenager who was found buried on the suspect’s father’s property in George County earlier this year was beaten to death.

When Spectrum, the undergraduate LGBT student group at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, launched in 1983, it became a resource not just for those on campus but for queer people living in that part of the South.