Massachetts' hight urt last month led a 4-3 cisn that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unnstutnal and orred the state legislature to e up wh a solutn wh 180 days. The state's lg has brought the legal and polil bate over gay marriage to the natnal level..
Contents:
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: THE OVERVIEW; MARRIAGE BY GAYS GAINS BIG VICTORY IN MASSACHUSETTS
- 15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
- HIGH COURT MASSACHETTS RUL GAYS HAVE RIGHT TO MARRY
- SJC: GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL MASS.
- GAYS HAVE RIGHT TO MARRY, MASS. SJC SAYS
- TEN YEARS AGO, MASSACHETTS TRODUCED TO GAY MARRIAGE
- HOW DID GAY MARRIAGE HAPPEN MASSACHETTS FIRST?
- GAY MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: THE OVERVIEW; MARRIAGE BY GAYS GAINS BIG VICTORY IN MASSACHUSETTS
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Morn fai: effective advocy for lbian and gay clients, MCLE, 2013. 19, 2003Massachetts' hight urt led on Tuday that gay upl have the right to marry unr the state's Constutn, and gave the state legislature 180 days to make same-sex marriag 4-to-3 cisn was the first which a state high urt had led homosexual upl are nstutnally entled to marry, and legal experts predicted would have ramifitns across the untry. ]The cisn, which did not explicly tell the state legislature how to rry out the lg, sent lawmakers and legal experts scramblg to terme what optns exist short of legimizg gay marriage.
15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
Massachetts Supreme Judicial Court l that gay upl have right to marry unr state's Constutn and giv state legislature 180 days to make same-sex marriag possible; some legal experts believe lg might allow room for legislature to embrace parallel system like civil unns allowed by Vermont, but others say lg leav ltle doubt that urt tends that full-fledged marriage be extend to gays and lbians; gay groups and some liberals hail lg, which is expected to have ramifitns across the untry, while nservativ nounce and ll for feral nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage; Democratic printial ndidat seek middle grond on issue, and Pr Bh, who has opposed same-sex marriage but not embraced nstutnal amendment banng , says he will work wh Congrs to do what is legally necsary to fend marriage as sacred stutn between man and woman; photo of two of seven gay upl who sued for right to wed (M) * massachusetts gay marriage 2003 *
Other experts said that the urt appeared termed to extend full marriage rights to gay men and cisn igned a storm of reactn throughout the natn, wh gay groups and some liberals heraldg the lg, and nservativ and some relig groups nouncg .
HIGH COURT MASSACHETTS RUL GAYS HAVE RIGHT TO MARRY
The lg fell somewhat short of what the platiffs were seekg, but appeared neverthels to be a victory for gay rights. * massachusetts gay marriage 2003 *
''We're thrilled and lighted the hight urt the state of Massachetts nfirms that our muny has the right to enter to civil marriage the same as other upl, '' said David Tseng, the executive director of Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, who noted that three of the four jtic the majory were appoted by Republin ernors. ''Tony Perks, print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative group, said '' is excable for this urt to force the state legislature to 'fix' s state nstutn to make port wh the pro-homosexual agenda of four urt jtic.
Perks and other nservativ said the cisn unrsred the need for a feral nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage. Most did not exprs support for gay marriage or a nstutnal amendment banng , but said they supported givg gay upl the benefs heterosexual upl receive. ''In fendg the current practice of rtrictg marriag to heterosexual upl, Massachetts officials had argued that the ma purpose of marriage was procreatn, that heterosexual marriage was bt for child-rearg, and that gay marriage would impose a fancial burn on the state.
SJC: GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL MASS.
The hight urt Massachetts led Tuday is unnstutnal for the state to ny marriage to gay and lbian upl, a move that uld make the state the first to legalize same-sex marriag. * massachusetts gay marriage 2003 *
Other experts said the 34-page lg left ltle doubt that the urt tend that full-fledged marriage be extend to gays and lbians. But the legislature uld try to amend the state Constutn to ban gay marriage, an optn that Gov.
GAYS HAVE RIGHT TO MARRY, MASS. SJC SAYS
In a historic and long-awaed cisn, a eply spl Supreme Judicial Court yterday hered a new era of gay rights, beg the natn’s first state supreme urt to le that same-sex upl have the legal right to marry. * massachusetts gay marriage 2003 *
Such a procs, though, would take at least three show that many Amerins, while more tolerant of homosexual relatnships, still do not support homosexual marriage. And some experts predicted that the urt cisn would crease support for laws banng gay marriage stat and at a natnal level. ''The cisn was a personal victory for at least 14 people: the gay and lbian partners who were platiffs the urt se.
The marriage would not tomatilly be nsired valid by the feral ernment or other stat, which would probably have to ci on their own whether to regnize a Massachetts gay the lg, Jtice Marshall wrote about the benefs of marriage for children and said that not beg allowed to marry ''works a ep and srrg hardship'' on homosexual fai.
TEN YEARS AGO, MASSACHETTS TRODUCED TO GAY MARRIAGE
The hight urt Massachetts led Tuday is unnstutnal for the state to ny marriage to gay and lbian upl, a move that uld make the state the first to legalize same-sex marriag. * massachusetts gay marriage 2003 *
Already, recent months, three different efforts have begun the legislature: a drive to amend the state Constutn to ban gay marriage, a bill to tablish civil unns and a bill that would allow for same-sex polics of Massachetts make the issue pecially tricky. The legislature is majory Democratic, but also largely Catholic, and the Roman Catholic Church is strenuoly opposed to gay marriage. On the other hand, the Democrats are rarely aligned wh Governor Romney, a Republin, who dited on Tuday that he would support some effort to extend benefs and rights to gay upl, though he would not support marriage.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: THE OVERVIEW; MARRIAGE BY GAYS GAINS BIG VICTORY IN MASSACHUSETTS. But gay uple Robert Compton and David Wilson, now happily married, n still remember how they cried when they heard the news. They me out late, and were exced to get a new start on they met 1997 at a nventn for gay fathers Boston, there was an stant nnectn.
They ma their vows durg a mment ceremony at Boston’s Arlgton Street Church 2000 ont of iends and 2001, the Massachetts-based gay rights anizatn Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, or GLAD, asked the pair to be a part of the Goodridge lawsu. The uple relled anti-gay-marriage protters outsi the urthoe wavg picket signs wh hateful slogans like “God hat fags.
HOW DID GAY MARRIAGE HAPPEN MASSACHETTS FIRST?
“When you actually started to see your fay, iends, neighbors get married and live their liv, and see jt how siar our fai are to other married fai, really started to stroy the wall of myths that our opponents had tried to create around the alleged negative effects of marriage equaly, bee was there person, right ont of you, ” Silva, three years after the Supreme Court's 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage across the natn — and 15 years after Massachetts did so for s rints — two three Amerins support gay marriage, acrdg to a recent Gallup days, marriage equaly feels more or ls normal to Wilson and Compton, who will celebrate their 15th anniversary broar fight for LGBTQ equaly, however, ntu, warned Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBTQ rights group. Warbelow also poted to recent bills Kansas and Oklahoma that would give fah-based adoptn agenci the abily to ny adoptn to gay and lbian upl. The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens.
GAY MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS
Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts. The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference.
“I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife. 18, 2003 The hight urt Massachetts led today that gay and lbian upl have the right to marry unr the state nstutn, emphatilly statg that the Commonwealth had failed to intify any nstutnal reasons why they uld not wed. The lg by the Supreme Judicial Court stopped short of immediately allowg marriage licens to be issued to the seven gay upl who sued the state Department of Public Health 2001 after their requts for marriage licens were nied.