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Contents:

• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• COMMON-LAW MARRIAGE THE COLORADO GAY COMMUNY: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

Although the legalizatn of same-sex marriage has provid many rights and protectns to same-sex married upl that did not exist prevly, there are still many rights and protectns that are enjoyed by heterosexual married upl which are not currently provid for homosexual married upl. WASHINGTON – Five years after the Supreme Court's landmark cisn extendg marriage rights to gay men and lbians natnwi, same-sex marriage has bee "so not a big al.

"That's the asssment of Hillary Goodridge, one of 14 people whose lawsu led Massachetts 2003 to bee the first state to sanctn gay and lbian marriag.

By ntrast, she says, “once you go to a same-sex weddg, ’s hard to fire the person for beg gay the next day.

GAY MARRIAGE

”The Supreme Court extend workplace protectns natnwi last week for the LGBTQ muny, lg 6-3 that a landmark civil rights law barrg sex discrimatn the workplace appli to gay, lbian and transgenr the urt's majory, led by nservative Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch, did not close the door on relig exemptns, sayg "other employers other s may raise ee exercise arguments that mer reful nsiratn.

"More:Rulg on LGBTQ rights reveals prer nature of Supreme Court's nservative majoryThe urt already is nsirg four major relign s, cludg several wh implitns for gay, lbian and transgenr people.

One of them, to be heard next fall, will ci if foster re agenci wh relig objectns n turn down gay and lbian seekg relig exemptns "are feelg tense public prsure... "'The air was electric'The high urt's 5-4 cisn that stat nnot ny marriage rights to gay men and lbians was hand down on June 26 – the same date as earlier landmark LGBTQ lgs agast state sodomy laws 2003 and the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013. "Lookg back, the victory is equally gratifyg to those like Evan Wolfson, founr of the Freedom to Marry mpaign; Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr & HIV Project; Roberta Kaplan, who reprented Edie Wdsor of New York the 2013 se that forced the feral ernment to regnize same-sex marriage; and Mary Bonto, the natn's leadg LGBTQ rights lawyer, who won both the Massachetts se 2003 and the Supreme Court se 2015.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

The cisn left unrolved whether other opponents of same-sex marriage, cludg bakers, florists, photographers and viographers, n refe mercial weddg servic to gay and lbian upl. ”But nservative Jtice Clarence Thomas lled on his lleagu to rensir s that allowed same-sex marriage, gay sex and urt’s three most liberal members warn their dissent that the lg uld be ed to challenge other personal eedoms: “Eher the mass of the majory’s opn is hypocrisy, or addnal nstutnal rights are unr threat.

The cisn givg stat the power to rtrict abortn means stat should also be able to ban medil treatments for transgenr youth, the state attempt to undo gay marriage would beg wh a lawsu, and any possible rollback is years away sce no major legal threat is on the horizon, said Cathryn Oakley, senr unsel and state legislative director wh the Washgton-based Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocy anizatn. “If gay marriage go away, we don’t really know what’s gog to happen, ” she said.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

It also requir stat and the feral ernment to rpect gay marriag the stat where is the seven years sce the Obergefell cisn, same-sex marriag have bee more mon, but the chang have differed by has the number of same-sex marriag changed over time? In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US. In April 2009 the Iowa Supreme Court overturned a state law that barred gay marriage, and soon afterward the legislatur of Vermont, Mae, and New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage—though November 2009 Mae voters repealed the law.

COMMON-LAW MARRIAGE THE COLORADO GAY COMMUNY: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U. Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.