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Contents:

• WH 5-4 GAY MARRIAGE CISN, BATTLE FAR OM OVER: COLUMN
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: US SUPREME COURT L 5-4 NATNWI RIGHT TO GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS CONSTUTNALY OF GAY MARRIAGE

WH 5-4 GAY MARRIAGE CISN, BATTLE FAR OM OVER: COLUMN

In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs. In 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman to be unnstutnal, 2013, Uned Stat v.

By 2015 (the year Obergefell was cid) thirty-six stat already issued marriage licens to same-sex upl and more than 20 unti around the world had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands 2000. Judge Heyburn held that “homosexual persons nstute a quasi-spect class, ” and clared that Kentucky’s law banng same-sex marriag vlat the Equal Protectn Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uned Stat Constutn. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage.

”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor. Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

WASHINGTON — Same-sex marriage is a nstutnal right anywhere the Uned Stat, the Supreme Court led Friday, a historic moment for the gay rights movement that reflects a dramatic shift public opn. "No unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice and fay, " Jtice Anthony Kennedy said, readg om the majory opn, while some the dience fought 5-4 cisn, after s of legal and polil battl across the untry, ends prohibns more than a dozen stat, and jubilant gay and lbian upl went to lol offic Friday for marriage licens.

Florida's ban, approved by referendum 2008, was validated earlier this year by a feral urt cisn, beg the latt a seri of velopments that left more than 70 percent of Amerins livg plac where gay marriage is legal. "It's my hope that the term 'gay marriage' will soon be a thg of the past, that om this day forward, will simply be 'marriage, ' " said Jim Obergefell, an Oh man at the heart of Obergefell vs. Kennedy, appoted by Print Ronald Reagan 1988, aga provid the ccial vote a gay rights years ago, the same aln stck down a feral law nyg benefs to same-sex upl but stopped short of sayg same-sex upl have a nstutnal right to lg announced by the urt on Friday alt wh bans Oh, Kentucky, Tennsee and Michigan.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: US SUPREME COURT L 5-4 NATNWI RIGHT TO GAY MARRIAGE

"The stat that had still banned same-sex marriage and were most directly affected by Friday's lg are: Alabama, Arkansas, Geia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, most of Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oh, South Dakota, Tennsee and began issug marriage licens on cisn me amid a rapid shift public opn about gay marriage. And both oppose a nstutnal amendment allowg stat to fe marriage, an ia floated by rival Stt Walker of are an timated 390, 000 married same-sex upl the Uned Stat, acrdg to UCLA's Williams Instute, which tracks the mographics of gay and lbian Amerins. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken.

Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.

SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS CONSTUTNALY OF GAY MARRIAGE

Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans.

As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

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