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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN

Over the last two years, the number of stat thorizg gay marriage had expand rapidly bee of legislative cisns, referendums or urt orrs.

In 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns. Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law.

8 Wyomg beme the latt state to legalize gay marriage Tuday after state lawyers filed a legal notice sayg they would not appeal a urt cisn that overturned the state’s same-sex marriage ban. That means gay upl n now marry the state where gay teen Matthew Shepherd was beaten to ath 1998, what beme known as a high-profile hate-crime. The news after a feral judge stck down Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban Friday, makg Wyomg the latt a seri of urt cisns that have opened the door for gay marriage that state and 12 others this month.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

The cisn to ny appeals signals that the Supreme Court agreed wh lower urts’ lgs that rtrictns on gay marriage were unnstutnal, but the Court did not yet want to make a sweepg lg that appli to all 50 stat.

Colorado, North Carola, and Wt Virgia have already dited they will allow gay upl to marry.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

On October 7, a feral urt San Francis clared Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage bans unnstutnal.

12, an Alaska urt overturned the state’s 16-year old nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, allowg same-sex upl to marry for the first time.

Governor Sean Parnell said the state would appeal, but that se would go to the Nth Circu, the same urt that stck down Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage ban. By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged. As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. “The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.

The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law.

The rmatn below reflects the stat of gay marriage natnwi on June 25, 2015, the day prr to the Supreme Court’s cisn.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

3, 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court orred the state’s 68 probate judg to stop issug marriage licens to same-sex upl, spe an earlier feral urt lg that stck down the state’s gay marriage ban, and the US Supreme Court’s cisn to allow same-sex marriag to proceed the state.

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

Stat where gay marriage bans had been overturned, but where appeals were progrs prr to the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court lg. ARKANSAS – On May 9, 2014, Arkansas’ gay marriage ban was led unnstutnal by Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza.

Arkansas had prevly banned gay marriage by both state law and voter-approved nstutnal amendment. The Supreme Court effectively halted gay marriag om takg place, however, by notg that while Judge Piazza’s lg had stck down both the nstutnal amendment and the state law, had not affected an addnal state law prohibg unty clerks om issug same-sex marriage licens.