Same-sex couples in Alabama who were expecting to get their marriage licenses starting Monday have had to wait as the state sorts out confusion after Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges to not issue licenses. According to the Human Rights Campaign, 44 of the 67 counties in Alabama are now issuing licenses.
Vicky Miles and Melissa Angles were one of the first couples to get their request for a license denied following Moore’s order on Sunday night.
“We were there when the doors opened,” Miles told José Díaz-Balart on Wednesday’s Rundown. “Then, we go in and say that we would like to apply to get our marriage license. She tapped this little thing on the desk and said, well according to the ruling by Judge Roy Moore it’s not going to happen. It felt like being hit in the face with a sledge hammer. It was just devastating.”
The couple said they tried to apply for a marriage license six times before they finally received a call from the probate judge on Tuesday, saying they could get a license.
Miles and Angles will celebrate their wedding with a ceremony at the end of the month.
Watch the interview with Vicky Miles and Melissa Angles in the video player.
Nicole Acevedo
I am a bilingual national reporter specializing in issues affecting Latino communities in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. Experience I have produced hundreds of stories across digital, radio and broadcast platforms throughout my career — reporting on everything from elections, natural disasters and immigration to pop culture trends, social justice issues and breaking news. I'm best known for my coverage of the crises affecting Puerto Rico, including its reconstruction process after Hurricane Maria, the island’s financial crisis and more. After graduating from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in broadcast and digital journalism in 2016, I joined the inaugural cohort of students who helped launch the Spanish-language bilingual journalism master’s program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Awards I was a 2024 finalist for the NAHJ/University of Florida award in investigative journalism for my reporting uncovering the challenges Puerto Rican families face in caring for their elders, given that the island’s population is aging faster than most places on Earth and fragmented by migration. I served as the lead reporter and writer of NBC News' 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month project “Who’s Latino? Amid growing numbers the definition is expanding,” which was awarded an NAHJ Ñ Award for best Latino issues story for print/digital.