In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the urt led, 5-4, that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage.
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- GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
- THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
- SUPREME COURT L GAY UPL NATNWI HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY
GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
* gay ruling 2015 *
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. ”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights.
THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
In a landmark opn, a divid Supreme Court on Friday led that same-sex upl n marry natnwi, tablishg a new civil right and handg gay rights advot a historic victory. * gay ruling 2015 *
”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang. ”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.
Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a crime. 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 was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W.
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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. In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs.
Bh that would outlaw same-sex marriag the whole untry, ten typilly nservative tat along wh Oregon enacted state-level bans on gay marriag. In 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman to be unnstutnal, 2013, Uned Stat v.