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• DPE LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE, WISNS LAWS STILL CENTERED ON HBAND AND WIFE
• GAY MARRIAGE WISNS: A TIMELE
• SAME-SEX UPL CHALLENGE WISNS'S GAY-MARRIAGE BAN
• GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN WISNS AFTER SCOTUS MOVE

DPE LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE, WISNS LAWS STILL CENTERED ON HBAND AND WIFE

HistoryHomosexual activy Wisns? Homosexual activy Wisns is legal.

Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Wisns? Novak, the state’s only openly gay elected Republin lawmaker, said everybody acknowledg that same-sex marriage is the law “so there’s really no tert dog a bill jt for statute cleanup.

1982: Wisns be the first state to outlaw discrimatn on the basis of sexual 7, 2006: More than 59 percent of Wisns voters approve a nstutnal amendment barrg gay marriage Wisns, pletg a procs that clud passg the measure two nsecutive legislative 30, 2008: Dane County Court Judge Richard Nis dismissed a lawsu seekg to overturn the same-sex marriage ban on the grounds that the referendum qutn improperly asked two qutns at once: whether the state should ban same-sex marriage and whether should ban siar arrangements such as civil 3, 2009: Wisns creat a legal stat for domtic partnership of two people of the same genr, providg some legal protectns and rights siar to 20, 2011: Dane County Judge Daniel Moer throws out a challenge to the domtic partnership law, sayg “do not vlate the Marriage Amendment bee do not create a legal stat for domtic partners that is intil or substantially siar to that of marriage. District Judge Barbara Crabb overturns Wisns’s gay marriage ban as unnstutnal, allowg same-sex upl to 19, 2014: Next hearg schled before Judge Crabb on the State of Wisns’s motn for a stay of the cisn overturng the gay marriage ban.

GAY MARRIAGE WISNS: A TIMELE

MILWAUKEE (Rters) - Four same-sex upl on Monday asked a feral judge Wisns to overturn the state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, the latt a seri of urt challeng aimed at makg same-sex marriage legal around the Uned Stat.

SAME-SEX UPL CHALLENGE WISNS'S GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

REUTERS/Stephen LamThe upl sug Wisns said an amendment to the state nstutn banng gay marriage and civil unns, approved by Wisns voters 2006, unnstutnally blocks them om feral protectns afford upl other lawsu follows high-profile U. Supreme Court lgs on gay marriage last year that paved the way for gay marriage to rume California and stck down the Defense of Marriage Act, a feral law that nied feral benefs to legally married same-sex Supreme Court’s lg on the Defense of Marriage Act was ced by feral judg overturng bans Utah and Oklahoma, whose lgs are on appeal.

“The state’s nstutnal marriage ban sends a msage that lbians, gay men and their children are viewed as send-class cizens, ” the ACLU said a lawsu nam Wisns Governor Stt Walker, a Republin, and other state and lol officials as fendants their official pacy.

GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN WISNS AFTER SCOTUS MOVE

Seventeen stat pl the District of Columbia now regnize same-sex marriage, cludg eight stat where beme legal marriage is legal neighborg Mnota and Iowa and legislatn makg gay marriage legal Illois tak effect on June 1, though some marriag have been performed Illois on an emergency stat ban gay upl om marryg by state nstutnal amendment, statute or both. In Indiana, where gay marriage is banned by statute, lawmakers are nsirg puttg a proposed state nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage before voters November.

First the Natn - Wisns's Gay Rights Law. Wisns activists first started to attempt to pass a bill protectg the rights of gays and lbians 1967. Milwkee legislator Lloyd Barabee troduced a bill to the state assembly a bill that would crimalize homosexualy.