Diplomatic tensn reportedly risg between Uned Stat and Jamai over gay Amerin diplomat

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• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS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STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS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

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

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

A state urt judge led November that Missouri’s 2004 nstutnal ban on gay marriage was illegal.

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

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. ”Five years after the Supreme Court had s say on the issue, same-sex marriage remas a polilly ntent issue, and LGBTQ advot ntue to battle urtrooms and stateho to ensure gay upl n exercise their right to marry.

History of state-level gay marriage bansStat have two typ of bans on same-sex marriage: statutory and nstutnal. The first one began the 1970s, when gay upl would apply for marriage licens and many state judg at the time led that the unns were not prohibed.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

” The “mi-DOMAs, ” he noted, banned gay marriage fay s and state law, not the 1998, Hawaii beme the first state to pass a nstutnal amendment specifilly targetg same-sex marriage.

Ultimately, 30 more stat adopted nstutnal amendments prohibg gay marriage.