Is gay marriage legal Florida? SCOTUS cisn on gay law

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• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW.  BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT.  THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL.  THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI.  READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW.  THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?
• OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA
• GAY MARRIAGE

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW.  BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT.  THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL.  THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI.  READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW.  THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER

Hodg legalized gay marriage across the untry, Democrats filed a bill to get the language scbbed om state law.

In January, Florida beme the 36th state where gay marriage is legal.

READ: Bin signs gay marriage bill at Whe Hoe ceremony While the Florida ban has not been effect, the Republin-ntrolled Legislature has not removed om state law. But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?

The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA

Hodg, 1 the cizens of Florida now have a firm answer to the qutn, “Is gay marriage legal? 4 The Uned Stat Supreme Court has firmly tablished that all gay Floridians are entled to the same benefs of marriage/divorce as heterosexual Floridians. While is anticipated that gay Floridians will no longer have trouble obtag a marriage license or dissolvg their marriag, is not far-fetched to expect that some ernment employe/officials unfaiar wh the new law of the land or otherwise personally opposed to same-sex marriage may still hr same-sex upl om exercisg their newly tablished rights.

Consequently, gay Floridians should unrstand that they may still face some unique “bumps the road” when alg wh matrimonial issu and should nsir ntactg an attorney if they enunter ristance to the exercise of their rights. Gay marriage has been legal natnwi for nearly eight years, and some lawmakers want to know why Florida still has a law on the books banng . However, the ban on gay marriage that was also led unnstutnal 2015 remas, and now some lawmakers want gone too.

In fact, 61% of Florida voters agreed to ban gay marriage that year when they went to the polls to approve a nstutnal amendment.

GAY MARRIAGE

“It’s sayg to those the gay and lbian muny that we don’t support you.

But many Floridians have thought about , and most people now acceptg gay marriage say needs to be removed. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.