First gay uple married Nashville thankful for support

Contents:

• FIRST GAY UPLE MARRIED NASHVILLE THANKFUL FOR SUPPORT
• NASHVILLE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TALKS MARRIAGE, NTROVERSY
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• GAY MARRIAGE: TN PLATIFFS PROUD OF URT'S CISN

FIRST GAY UPLE MARRIED NASHVILLE THANKFUL FOR SUPPORT

Supreme Court's lg on gay marriage. "WATCH: Nashville's Pri Ftival Holds New Special MeangGay and lbian upl uld already marry 36 stat and the District of Columbia.

Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majory opn, jt as he did the urt's prev three major gay rights s datg back to rponse to the lg, Tennsee Governor Bill Haslam released a statement sayg:“The people of Tennsee have recently voted clearly on this issue. "I’ve been a lawyer for 36 years and I’ve done gay rights for the whole time, " Rubenfeld said.

A natnal aln of more than 150 evangelil lears signed a new statement affirmg their beliefs on human sexualy, cludg that marriage is between one man and one woman and approval of "homosexual immoraly" is Council on Biblil Manhood and Womanhood released the list of 14 beliefs, referred to as the Nashville Statement, on Tuday morng. SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004).

NASHVILLE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TALKS MARRIAGE, NTROVERSY

Usually the Apostle Pl’s nmnatn of homosexualy, not the gospel stori of J himself, are the tmp rd. The Fay Rearch Council’s vice print Rob Schwarzwalr wrote, “Those profsed Evangelils who are willg to jettison the Bible’s teachg regardg homosexualy n no longer claim to be persons of the Gospel–Evangelils. ” Read next: How Evangelils Are Changg Their Mds on Gay Marriage.

Dorsha Jam, makg her the cy's first openly gay judge. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Supreme Court to regnize their New York one mute on Friday they learned through 22 words on a live blog that the natn's hight urt had changed their liv, those of their fay members and people the gay muny across the U. "Gay marriag begWh about 90 mut, unty clerks were given a green light to issue new licens, on that no longer said bri and groom but Applint 1 and Applint four hours of the urt's cisn, Nashville at-large uncilwoman and mayoral ndidate Megan Barry officiated the first weddg Davidson County Clerk Brenda Wynn's office.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

"The rights of cizens — and ncerns that the urt trampled on those — was a pot of ntentn for ntu after vioThe right of stat to make their own laws was a key pot Tennsee's se opposn to gay marriage when argued before the Supreme Court April. "Today a handful of Amerins on the urt have stripped the people of the eedom to mocratilly addrs the meang and role of society's most fundamental stutn, marriage, " said David Fowler, print of the Frankl-based Fay Actn Council of said the jtic "arrogantly" said they are smarter than "lns of human begs over thoands of years across the entire globe" who have ed a tradnal fn of more patchworkThe gay upl named Tennsee's part of the se — Jty and Tan, Ie DeKoe and Thom Kostura, and Matthew Mansell and Johno Espejo — all married other stat. It means gay upl will have the same legal protectns to make cisns for their ntu after slishowThe first ll DeKoe and Kostura ma after learng of the cisn was to their iends, another gay uple they knew Memphis.

GAY MARRIAGE: TN PLATIFFS PROUD OF URT'S CISN

Clev’s work here is necsarily a survey, touchg upon digeno tradns; “female hbands”; tersex persons; “Boston marriag”; “bachelor marriag”; the emergg homosexual cultur of the twentieth century; and queer culture at sea, among other maniftatns of unns that were lled marriag their own time.