State-by-State History of Banng and Legalizg Gay Marriage

Contents:

• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

The first lawsus volvg same-sex marriage, also lled gay marriage, started the 1970s, brgg the qutn of civil marriage rights for same-sex upl to public attentn.

Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon bee the first gay uple to marry and receive official regnn after beg together for 50 years. Thirty-seven stat have legalized gay marriage, wh rtrictns Kansas, Missouri, and Alabama. 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.

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

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.

District Court judge led that the state’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriag had no “legimate purpose.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu later overturned the lg, restatg gay marriage bans Kentucky and four other stat.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

A state urt judge led November that Missouri’s 2004 nstutnal ban on gay marriage was illegal. Adam Ebb, the first openly gay lawmaker the state’s General Assembly, troduced the bill, which was one of four pro-LGBTQ measur passed the state this month.

Indiana is one of those stat, though an attempt to remove s gay marriage ban was unsuccsful last month the Republin-ntrolled state Legislature.