From the "no good deed goes unpunished" file comes this story from Autauga County, Alabama. A same-sex couple say that a minister who offered to perform their wedding ceremony after they had received their marriage license was arrested in the Autauga County, Alabama Courthouse. The probate judge apparently asked the minister to leave the courthouse, and had her arrested for disorderly conduct after she refused.

From The New Civil Rights Movement:



Courtney Cannon and Morgan Plunkett (photo), together three and a half years, say they received a marriage license from a "very nice" clerk. They were surprised when the situation began to "blow up." "I don't even know her name, but she said she was an ordained minister and wanted to marry us," Cannon told a Montgomery Advertiser reporter on camera. "She was standing up for our rights to get married. Judge Booth called the deputies after he told her to leave." "Judge Booth said there was a lady in the office who wouldn't leave when he asked her to leave," Autauga County Sheriff's Office chief deputy Dave Hill said. Anne Susan Diprizio was charged with disorderly conduct.

"I don't think she deserves to be arrested," Cannon said. "They say they have stopped all marriages at the probate office. But I guarantee you if a heterosexual couple went in there they would marry them in a heartbeat." Diprizio walked out of the jail about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday after posting bond and walked across Fifth Street and went back inside the probate office. She came out the front door about three minutes later. "I asked to speak with Judge Booth but he wouldn't see me," she said. "I wanted to let him know that I will be back. They charged my with disorderly conduct, which I disagree with, I was not disorderly, I was very respectful."

Diprizio says she is going to go back and try it again:

"These are intimidation tactics. And we have the federal government on our side, and he's on the wrong side of history. That's unfortunate for Judge Booth because we're at a moment in history that's pretty exciting and you want to be on the right side of it, don't you think? You certainly don't want to abuse your position by intimidating people or harassing people who are trying to do the right thing, and make their love legal, just like you and I would like for ourselves." Asked if she's concerned she'll be arrested again and a bit afraid, Diprizio said she wants people to know there was someone in Alabama trying to do the right thing:

"Of course it gives me pause. I have two young children. But I'm not just fighting this fight for myself and my friends. I really would love to represent Alabama for the country and for the world so when they make fun of Alabama like they always do, they can say there was at least one person who was on the right side of the law, the federal law, which takes precedent."

From The Montgomery Advertiser From Towleroad