. The base structure of the word "marriage" is and always has been "the union of man and woman into which children will come". Children need a mother and father:
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/pdf/Youth_Index_jan2011.pdf &
Teens without parent role model are 67 per cent less likely to get a job Daily Mail Online or things get really ugly in their minds.
Alabama is simply asserting its rights to keep the thousands-years-old supermajority-supported definition of the base structure of marriage to best benefit children. Black women can marry white men there. No problem. But men cannot marry men and women cannot marry women. That's the law. If they don't like it, they can move to New York and marry. Just like if 13 year olds want to marry from Florida, they can emancipate and move to New Hampshire where that (unbelievably) is legal there..
If this cult gets a foothold on "superspecial" status as the rabidly-powerful litigant army they've shown themselves to be (even taking over the American Psychological Association in the 1970s by physical force-storming conventions and knocking over booths to declare themselves "sane by force") ...even over the rights of children to mother and father (children who cannot vote or file a lawsuit to protect their interests; who instead rely on us), the next step will be using New Hampshire's model to force all the other states to allow nuptuals with 13 year olds.
If you think I'm being alarmist here, read my signature. They made a postage stamp of this guy and put the rainbow logo on it.. Harvey Milk, LGBT sexual icon and hero, sodomized a 16 year old minor for years, while officiating as his father figure/guardian. The boy later killed himself jumping to his death where the two met in New York. The oldest boy in a series of boys on drugs that were this predator's favorite demograpic, was 24 as Milk aged into his 40s. And the 24 year old only because he was hairless and resembled a young teen boy. He liked them very young and addled on drugs. Today we would prosecute him as a drug-rapist/pedophile and he would be on the sex-offender's registry.
Cult members know all this about him. All of it is in his biography "The Mayor of Castro Street" for anyone to read. When confronted about his actions, I've never found a single LGBT person who denounced him. Instead, they line up lock-step to defend what he did with kids...when cornered long enough in debate, they always fall back on "well, the age of consent should be lower"...(with time...and lower....and lower....and ...)
...This is the same group, mind you, who battles daily here and many other places on the internet to divorce children's welfare from the conversation about forced-radical structural change to marriage (aka "marriage equality").