California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Voters uld remove 2024

Contents:

• COLORADO’S NSTUTN STILL NTAS A GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• S. DAKOTA NOT SO SURE ABOUT GAY-MARRIAGE BAN
• N.Y. COURT UPHOLDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• ARE GAY-MARRIAGE BANS A FORM OF SEXISM?

COLORADO’S NSTUTN STILL NTAS A GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Wh over 13 ln vot st, California voters approve Proposn 8 on November 4, 2008, amendg the state’s nstutn to ban same-sex months earlier, May 2008, the California Supreme Court had emed the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, makg California the send state the untry to legalize gay marriage. Californian voters received robolls om former print Bill Clton askg them to vote no on the measure, while actors om the televisn show “Ugly Betty” argued Spanish-language TV spots that votg no “is not about beg gay or straight, ” but “about beg Amerin.

”The Protect Marriage mpaign supportg Proposn 8 nstantly voked the “far-reachg nsequenc” of legal gay marriage, particularly the implitn that school curriculums would be required to teach that gay marriage is “the same as tradnal marriage. ” Pollster David Fleischer, his analysis of the electn rults, found that the greatt shift toward “Y” among uncid voters was “among parents wh children unr 18 livg at home—many of them whe Democrats, ” who feared the effects of legal gay marriage on their children’s public tn.

S. DAKOTA NOT SO SURE ABOUT GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman. The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U. Gay Unns might be legal marriage be foreign same-sex marriag regnized jt registered a gay marriage that occurred Argenta, meang the untry do regnise foreign SSM.

N.Y. COURT UPHOLDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN

— This is an unlikely state to blaze a trail for gay Dakota has the smallt percentage of gay and lbian rints the natn -- 10, 000 adults, or ls than 2% of the populatn. Across the South, anti-gay-marriage measur have easily drawn 75% year, amendments South Carola, Tennsee and Idaho are expected to pass easily. “This is the bt thg gay-marriage supporters uld have hoped for, ” said Ted Olsen, news director of Christiany Today, an evangelil magaze.

On the other hand, as many as 40% of Colorado’s ballots are st before electn day, absentee or early votg, so the effect may be before Haggard’s actns beme public, the relig right had been stgglg to igne a sense of urgency about gay marriage.

And they warn that broad language validatg all “quasi-maral” relatnships uld end up hurtg straight unmarried upl as well as gays and South Dakota, the mpaign agast the ban is appealg to the sense of muny and Christian kdns that bds many ral towns. The Arg Lear, the state’s biggt newspaper, opened an article about the movie “Brokeback Mounta” the wter wh this observatn: “At least prently, the ia of fdg two gay, male South Dakota ranchers is as foreign as the avian flu.

GAY MARRIAGE

She’s no gay-rights activist; when her granddghter staged a weddg of two Barbie dolls, Bye was so disturbed that she shed out to buy a Ken doll to serve as groom.

”Natnal gay-rights activists are all but ncedg already, sayg they’ll nsir a victory if they even e close to featg any of the eight bans on ballots Tuday.

ARE GAY-MARRIAGE BANS A FORM OF SEXISM?

Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns.