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If the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law banng them.

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ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI ‘TRIGGER LAW’ TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS SUPREME COURT LIBERAT: GAY MARRIAGE

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Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law — even a provisn the state Constutn — banng same-sex marriage.

Seem farfetched that gay marriage uld be repealed? The Supreme Court approved gay marriage by a slim 5-4 marg the 2015 Obergefell v.

Hodg se, wh nservative jtic argug that the right to gay marriage was not the U. The state approved placg the ban on gay marriage the Mississippi Constutn 2004. No unty voted agast the provisn placg a ban on gay marriage the state Constutn.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

And to highlight what a hot-button issue gay marriage remas Mississippi, legislators 2016 passed a bill that allows public officials to opt out of providg servic to same-sex upl, such as issug a marriage license, and allows private bs not to provi servic to gay upl. That legislatn, which still ensur the state will issue a marriage license to a gay uple even if a clerk opts out of providg the service, has not been overturned by the feral urts. In addn, pollg 2017 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute found only three stat where a majory or pluraly opposed gay marriage: Mississippi, Alabama and Wt Virgia.

Granted, at least one key obstacle to the Supreme Court overturng gay marriage is that there are already tens of thoands of upl who have married sce the 2015 lg.

Still, do not be surprised if some policians attempt to overturn gay marriage if Roe v. Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people? Support of homosexualy by US state?

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

HistoryHomosexual activy Mississippi?

Homosexual activy Mississippi is legal.

Current statSce Jul 1, 2022State-enforced ‘Don’t say gay’ spired law gog to affect mississippi schools startg the 2022-23 school to change legal genr Mississippi? Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Mississippi? Mississippi has not prohibed the e of the gay or transgenr panic fense as a legal strategy.

JUDGE BLOCKS MISSISSIPPI LAW PROTECTG RELIG OBJECTNS TO GAY MARRIAGE

This legal strategy is employed by lawyers who try to exce their fendant’s crim, such as murr or asslt, by claimg that the victim beg gay or trans ed the fendant to react vlently.

Allison also currently wr for her llege newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, as sophomore at the Universy of Pennsylvania. Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr.

MISSISSIPPI LAW PROTECTG OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE IS BLOCKED

Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law.

Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.

California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire. On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote.

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Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023] .

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