The US Supreme Court will le the next few months on whether gay upl have a right to marry across all stat.
Contents:
- US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- READ THE FULL SUPREME COURT CISN ON GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- 2--5 RINTS CONSIR LEAVG FLORIDA OVER “DON’T SAY GAY”
US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE
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Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The urt uld effectively make gay marriage legal across the untryThe US Supreme Court will le this year on whether gay upl have a right to marry across all jtic said they would hear a bed se about marriage bans four a supreme urt lg on the s uld fully legalise gay marriage the urt prevly stck down a US law preventg feral regnn of marriag stat allowg same-sex unns.
Fourteen state bans Friday, the jtic said they would take up s om gay and lbian platiffs Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Gay marriage supporters cheered the June 2013 lg that stck down a law limg regnn of the unnsIn November, a US appeals urt overturned lgs strikg down marriage bans those four stat, the first appeals urt to do so sce the Supreme Court's ial gay marriage US high urt prevly cled to tervene s that had ma to the appeals urt level, effectively allowg marriag to go two-and-a-half hours of arguments, the jtic will nsir two related qutns - whether the US nstutn requir stat to issue marriage licenc to gay and lbian upl and whether stat mt regnise such marriag performed other se will be argued April and a cisn is expected by late on this story.
The 5-4 opn, wrten by Jtice Anthony Kennedy, will stand as a landmark civil rights law and culmat a two-ca long stggle for gays and lbians to w marriage equaly unr the Constitutn.
READ THE FULL SUPREME COURT CISN ON GAY MARRIAGE
In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the urt led, 5-4, that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. * supreme court ruling gay marriage 2015 *
“The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch. The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. ”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
A supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Court. * supreme court ruling gay marriage 2015 *
”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.
Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.
Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. 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.
2--5 RINTS CONSIR LEAVG FLORIDA OVER “DON’T SAY GAY”
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.