Forty gay upl South Dakota applied to be married durg the first month followg a landmark U.S. Supreme Court cisn that legalized such unns across the untry, acrdg to data provid by the state Department of Health.
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- ONLY 40 GAY COUPL APPLY TO BE MARRIED IN S.D. IN 1ST MONTH
- SOUTH DAKOTA BE SEND STATE TO BAN GAY MARRIAG
ONLY 40 GAY COUPL APPLY TO BE MARRIED IN S.D. IN 1ST MONTH
(AP) — Forty gay upl South Dakota applied to be married durg the first month followg a landmark U. The number of marriage licens issued to gay upl South Dakota reprents about 5 percent of the 839 licens issued to all upl om June 26 to July 27, The Associated Prs found s analysis of the data. Although the numbers pale parison to borrg Mnota, where more than 1, 600 licens were issued Augt 2013 when same-sex marriage was legalized there, gay rights advot lled the statistics reflective of the barriers the gay muny still fac South Dakota and other nservative stat.
By parison, gay upl Mnota ma up almost a third of all licens issued Augt of 2013, the first month gay marriage was legal the state after was passed by the state Legislature the sprg. Rosenbrahn, who married her wife Mneapolis last year, said gay South Dakotans have to feel they're secure at their job and their hog before they ci to go to a public ernment office and ask to be married. All other unti issued three or fewer licens sce gay marriag began the state, which means at least 49 unti have not issued a marriage license to a gay uple.
The number of marriage licens issued South Dakota so far appears to be le wh projectns, acrdg to Christy Mallory, senr unsel at UCLA's Williams Instute, which tracks the mographics of gay and lbian Amerins. “Accs to ntraceptn and gay marriage aren’t gog anywhere, ” Johnson said an emailed statement. The state has sold 283 marriage licens to same-sex upl sce the law changed June of Falls Pri is Saturday, a ftival that also happens to fall close to the two-year anniversary sce South Dakota clerk of urts started issug marriage crentials to gay upl.
SOUTH DAKOTA BE SEND STATE TO BAN GAY MARRIAG
►Related: Thoands fly gay pri, show support for Orlando victims“It was such a foreign ia for to get married, ” Rosenbrahn said.
”South Dakota lawmakers long opposed gay marriage.
South Dakota beme the send state to rewre s marriage laws to ny lbian and gay upl the right to marry, followg a siar law enacted last year Utah. Radil right groups at a recent Iowa rally vowed to pass anti-gay marriage legislatn throughout the 50 stat a preemptive attack on the Hawaii lawsu.