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 WASHINGTON -- Alabama's only openly gay legislator is putting her anti-gay colleagues on notice: If they keep espousing family values rhetoric as a reason to oppose marriage equality, she'll start making their marital infidelities public. 
  
 "I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about 'family values' when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have," wrote state Rep. Patricia Todd (D) on Facebook over the weekend, as reported by the TimesDaily in Alabama. "I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out." 
  
 Todd's post came after a federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. She told The Huffington Post that she decided to issue her threat after reading some of the anti-gay rhetoric coming from certain elected officials in the state. 
  
 "If certain people come out and start espousing this rhetoric about family values, then I will say, 'Let's talk about family values, because here's what I heard.' I don't have direct knowledge, because obviously I'm not the other person involved in the affair. But one thing you would never hear about me is that I ever cheated on a partner or had an affair," said Todd. 
  
 "One thing I'm pretty consistent on is I do not like hypocrites," she added. "If you can explain your position and you hold yourself to the same standard you want to hold me to, then fine. But you cannot go out there and smear my community by condemning us and somehow making us feel less than, and expect me to be quiet." 
  
 On Sunday night, U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade issued a two-week stay on her ruling, meaning that same-sex couples will have to wait a bit longer to wed. Her order gives the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals until Feb. 9 to decide whether to continue the delay. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) said he would have preferred a stay until the spring or summer, when the Supreme Court is set to rule on the constitutionality of marriage equality nationwide. 
  
 If Granade's ruling is upheld, Alabama will be the 37th state to legalize marriage equality. 
  
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 Enter your email address: ||||| MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Monday began the process of appealing a federal judge's decision that overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage — a decision that was put on hold to allow time for the appeal. 
  
 Tori Sisson, left, and Shanté Wolfe wait near the Montgomery County Courthouse, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Montgomery, Ala., where they plan to stay overnight to be married Monday morning. A federal judge... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this May 4, 2006, file photo, Cari Searcy, left, and Kim McKeand pose for a portrait with their son Khaya in Mobile, Ala. Alabama became the latest state to see its ban on gay marriage fall... (Associated Press) 
  
 Shanté Wolfe, left and Tori Sisson embrace near the Montgomery County Courthouse, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Montgomery, Ala., where they plan to stay overnight to be married Monday morning. A federal... (Associated Press) 
  
 At least two same-sex couples sought and were refused marriage licenses because of the delay, officials said, but there were no reports of widespread problems or confusion over the issue. 
  
 Attorney General Luther Strange's office filed notice with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta saying it would challenge the ruling by U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade of Mobile. 
  
 In the latest in a string of victories for same-sex marriage across the Deep South, Granade ruled Friday that Alabama's legal bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional. Then, at the request of the state, she issued an order late Sunday delaying implementation of her order for 14 days to let the state appeal. 
  
 The state asked the 11th Circuit to issue a stay that could delay the issue until after the Supreme Court rules on the legality of gay marriage, which could happen by late June. 
  
 Despite the postponement, two women went to the Calhoun County Courthouse in Anniston on Monday trying to obtain a marriage license, said Probate Judge Alice Martin. They were refused, she said. 
  
 "There were aware that the stay was in effect," said Martin. "I think they mainly just came in to inquire." 
  
 Two men showed up at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham seeking a license and were denied, said Probate Judge Alan King. 
  
 The president of the state probate judge's association, Monroe County Probate Judge Greg Norris, said he hadn't heard of any problems or confusion over whether counties should issue licenses to same-sex couples. 
  
 But county officials will have work to do, should same-sex unions begin in the state, he said. 
  
 "Our license application forms say 'bride' and 'groom.' We'll have to figure out what to do about that," said Norris. 
  
 Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange called the delay in Granade's decision a "step in the right direction" because it will allow the state time to prepare appellate arguments and perhaps settle questions about the effect of the ruling. 
  
 Advocates of gay marriage rights were unhappy about the delay but were confident they would ultimately prevail. 
  
 "While we're disappointed that committed, loving gay and lesbian couples in Alabama will not be able to marry (Monday), we're hopeful the final legal barriers will be overcome quite soon," Human Rights Campaign Alabama Director Ashley Jackson said. 
  
 Some hoping to get married swiftly expressed frustration over the two-week hold. 
  
 Tori Sisson and Shante Wolfe of Tuskegee were prepared to camp outside the Montgomery courthouse all night Sunday in hopes of securing a marriage license first thing Monday from a judge who had indicated he would be issuing them absent a stay. 
  
 "It's aggravating. The judge ruled and everybody got so excited and now, this," Sisson said. 
  
 The stay will expire Feb. 9 unless the court extends it. Granade said she will issue a separate order within that time clarifying the effect of her ruling on those seeking and issuing marriage licenses across Alabama. 
  
 The ruling striking down the marriage ban came out of a case filed by Cari Searcy and Kim McKeand of Mobile. The couple said the ban prevented Alabama from recognizing their 2008 California marriage and Searcy as a parent to the son they had together. McKeand gave birth to the child in 2005, but the courts rejected Searcy's adoption petition because the couple was not legally married. |||||
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If criticism of gay marriage in Alabama quiets down a bit, this might be why: A gay state lawmaker says she will expose "hypocrites" who talk about family values but don't live up to them, reports the TimesDaily. With the state poised to become the latest to allow same-sex marriage, Democrat Patricia Todd says she is fed up with hearing fellow lawmakers who hate the idea talk about the sanctimony of marriage. Hence, her remarkable threat: "I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about 'family values' when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have,” Todd wrote on Facebook. "I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out.” Todd, the state's only openly gay lawmaker, elaborates to the Huffington Post that she dislikes "hypocrites" and knows of plenty walking around the state capitol. "If you can explain your position and you hold yourself to the same standard you want to hold me to, then fine. But you cannot go out there and smear my community by condemning us and somehow making us feel less than, and expect me to be quiet." The rhetoric has been heating up since a federal judge overturned Alabama's ban on gay marriage last week. The decision is on hold to give the state time to appeal, and the attorney general began that process yesterday, reports the AP.