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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.

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

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. ” 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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?

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 .

OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA

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.

“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.

GAY MARRIAGE

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.