Contents:
- OH WILL HAVE TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAG, JUDGE SAYS
- JIM OBERGEFELL SAYS SUPREME COURT ABORTN LG PUTS TARGET ON PRIVACY, GAY MARRIAGE
OH WILL HAVE TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAG, JUDGE SAYS
He announced support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out as gay. CINCINNATI — A feral judge gave notice Friday that he will require Oh officials to regnize any gay marriag performed other stat for Oh's 20, 000 same-sex upl.
District Judge Timothy Black ma the statement after fal arguments a lawsu that challenged the nstutnaly of the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban. "Ours is a narrow se, but I don't thk there's any secret that basilly the Uned Stat Supreme Court is gog to get the broar qutn on gay marriage, " DeWe said.
"We're teachg kids of future generatns that all fai are different, and jt bee our fay don't look like your fay don't mean that ours shouldn't be regnized, " Pam Yorksmh Jam, lear of a group tryg to get a gay-marriage amendment on Oh's ballot as early as this year, lled Black's upg lg "a step the right directn" but said his group will ntue to gather expects the Supreme Court to eher le that same-sex marriage is law across the USA or that dividual stat may set their own l. If is the latter, he said he'll be Ccnati-based legal team that filed the Febary lawsu asked Black to clare Oh's gay marriage ban "facially unnstutnal, valid and unenforceable.
JIM OBERGEFELL SAYS SUPREME COURT ABORTN LG PUTS TARGET ON PRIVACY, GAY MARRIAGE
" The lawyers dited that followg such a lg, the wdow would be open for addnal ligatn seekg to force Oh to allow gay upl to marry the state.
"Almost 62% of voters approved a state nstutnal amendment 2004 that not only says marriage is a unn of one man and one women but also prohibs the state om creatg or regnizg a legal stat for relatnships of unmarried upl that approximat 's official lg a week and a half will follow a narrower lg the judge ma last year which Oh thori were orred to regnize gay marriag on ath December, the judge wrote that banng same-sex marriage is unnstutnal and that stat nnot discrimate agast gay upl simply bee some voters don't like homosexualy. "For the send time Judge Black has affirmed that the marriag of mted and lovg same-sex upl mt be regnized by the state of Oh, " said Print Chad Griff of the Human Rights 's December cisn stemmed om a lawsu filed July by Jim Obergefell of Ccnati and another gay Oh man whose spo recently died. "Same-sex marriage advot ntend Oh's nstutnal amendment prevents mted upl om takg advantage of benefs such as jot filg of tax returns and fay health surance polici and also requir gay upl to ntend wh plited legal paperwork to make sure they n take part medil cisns and other ton life.
Judg several other stat have said that their stat mt regnize gay marriag performed other stat. Wa uld have ripple effects down the road for s alg wh same-sex marriage and ntraceptn, cludg one bearg the name of an Oh gay rights urt led Friday that there's no nstutnal right to abortn accs, sendg the procre back to stat to regulate.