A after 'I do,' we revis WA's first legally wed gay upl | Crosscut

Contents:

• A AFTER 'I DO,' WE REVIS WA'S FIRST LEGALLY WED GAY UPL
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

A AFTER 'I DO,' WE REVIS WA'S FIRST LEGALLY WED GAY UPL

The first Washgton gay marriage se me before the state Supreme Court. through prev marriag, gay adoptns, assisted reproductn technologi,.

bee of the public’s creased acceptance of gay marriage. to legalize gay marriage on Febary 13, 2012. Forty-seven Hoe Republins had jt voted favor of protectg same-sex marriage rights for gay upl, followg the Supreme Court’s cisn reversg Roe v.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

), whom Baldw, the first openly gay U. Portman, who was the first his uc to endorse same-sex marriage back 2013 and whose son is gay, said he ially felt ls optimistic, aware of jt how many of his lleagu had “strongly held views” on the discsn set off months of negotiatns by a bipartisan group of five senators wh their Republin lleagu, LGBTQ rights groups and relig anizatns, which rulted Tuday’s historic Senate vote to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and guarantee protectns for same-sex married upl as well as terracial upl if the Supreme Court were to ever reverse s cisns protectg them.

That every prent Senate Democrat and 12 Republins would vote to protect gay unns, after years which opposg same-sex marriage was the nsens posn Washgton, and later, a rallyg cry for the GOP base, shows how quickly public opn has changed on the issue, promptg many lawmakers to follow su. Conservative Jtice Clarence Thomas’s ment his Dobbs ncurrence that the urt “should rensir” s opn protectg gay marriage set off a panic among some same-sex upl that their marriag uld be validated the to nvce at least 10 Republins to back the measure, Baldw knew she had to overe skepticism om many Republins that Democrats jt wanted to put them on the spot on an issue that public opn had recently serted them on, as well as fierce opposn om social nservative groups and some relig acunt of the months-long effort to pass the legislatn is the rult of terviews wh more than a dozen lawmakers, staffers and advot volved the bill. Baldw was immediately stck by how many more senators appeared open to the legislatn after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell cisn, given how many more of them had openly gay people their liv.

“I have so many lleagu who have iends, relativ, staff members who are gay and married, ” she said.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

), who opposed same-sex marriage and was given a zero percent ratg by the Human Rights Campaign gay rights group durg her time the Hoe, joed the group of Republins after she asked for an 11th-hour wordg change to the bill’s relig liberty sectn that nearly layed the vote as senators antilly cleared the new language wh the aln of groups supportg the faced prsure back home to vote no and explaed her vote several tim on Tuday on the Senate floor. They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.

“[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.