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GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
The lg means gay and lbian upl who are legally married will be able to take advantage of feral tax breaks, pensn rights, and other benefs that are available to other married upl. Karen Clark jog the rally outsi the Hoe Chamber followg the 75-59 vote to legalize gay a 10-year anniversary celebratn November, Attorney General Keh Ellison scribed the shift emotns om when the amendment was voted onto the ballot to when the same-sex marriage law was signed by then-Gov. Volunteers — as timated 27, 000 of them — asked voters nsired persuadable to “go on a journey wh ” to ci that the vote wasn’t about whether gay and lbian upl uld get married but “how do this amendment reflect my valu.
MnPost file photo by Beth HawksChristian Ucl, the Mnotans Uned for all Fai’ Lato outreach ordator, traed volunteers to engage culturally tailored nversatns about gay marriage. 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.
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. Reporters wrote about what Fortunato and Schwandt lled a holy unn, which was ntroversial not bee there was talk of legalizg gay marriage but bee the two men publicly ask for -- and were nied -- the blsg of the Epispal Church. "The New York State Court of Appeals clar that a lbian or gay uple livg together for a least ten years n be nsired a fay for purpos of rent ntrol protectn, the first time a state's hight urt l that a gay uple n be lled a fay...