Appeals urt upholds Michigan's gay marriage ban

Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• ONE COURT, THREE JUDG AND FOUR STAT WH GAY MARRIAGE CAS
• FIVE KEY ARGUMENTS LOOM GAY MARRIAGE SE
• APPEALS URT UPHOLDS MICHIGAN'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

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

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.

Bh that would outlaw same-sex marriag the whole untry, ten typilly nservative tat along wh Oregon enacted state-level bans on gay marriag.

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.

ONE COURT, THREE JUDG AND FOUR STAT WH GAY MARRIAGE CAS

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.

FIVE KEY ARGUMENTS LOOM GAY MARRIAGE SE

Shift natn's attus puts gay marriage on path for Supreme Court. CINCINNATI -- A feral appeals judge hearg arguments about gay marriage bans four stat says " don't look like the sky has fallen" other stat that allow same-sex Martha Craig Dghtrey ma the ment Wednday Ccnati as she and two other judg on the 6th U. Circu Court of Appeals qutned lawyers on both sis durg the biggt urt ssn yet of feral legal battl over gay marriage.

Michigan's and Kentucky's s stem om lgs strikg down each state's gay marriage bans.

Oh's se als only wh the state's regnn of out-of-state gay marriag, while Tennsee's is narrowly foced on the rights of three same-sex upl. "About a dozen gay marriage opponents prayed the rosary outsi the urthoe. Supreme Court stck down part of the feral Defense of Marriage Act last year, gay marriage advot have won more than 20 victori feral urts.

APPEALS URT UPHOLDS MICHIGAN'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Constutnal law profsors and urt observers say the 6th Circu uld liver the first victory to gay marriage three judg hearg the se are Jefey S. Bh, and Martha Craig Dghtrey, a pick of Print Bill is nsired the least predictable, shockg Republins 2011 when he beme the cidg vote a 6th Circu lg that upheld Print Barack Obama's landmark health re the 6th Circu cis agast gay marriage, that would create a divi among feral appeals urts and put prsure on the U.

And should the high urt ci to hear a se on same-sex marriage, the Department of Jtice will file a brief urgg the urt to uphold the rights of gay upl to wed, Attorney General Eric Holr vowed last month. "Two feral appeals urts already have led favor of gay marriage, one Denver June and another Richmond, Virgia, last week. Better, this stance, we thk, to allow change through the ctomary polil procs, which the people, gay and straight alike, bee the hero of their own stori by meetg each other not as adversari a urt system but as fellow cizens seekg to rolve a new social issue a fair-md way.

* It found that none of the bans adopted by voter-approved ballot measur  the four stat volved the s had been enacted out of hostily (“anim”) toward gays and lbians, but rather sought only to dify long-standg social norms about marriage, already reflected state laws. * It nclud that what the same-sex upl were seekg was a fundamental right to “gay marriage, ” and that do not exist unr the Constutn. The route of regnizg gay marriage through the Constutn, said, “do not exist.