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- GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
- HOW WE CHANGED OUR THKG ON GAY MARRIAGE
- JUNE 26, 2015 – US SUPREME COURT MAK GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ALL 50 US STAT
- LIVE UPDAT ON #LOVEWS: THE SUPREME COURT RUL THAT GAY AND LBIAN COUPL CAN MARRY
- SUPREME COURT L GAY UPL NATNWI HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY
- THE SURPRISG RSIAN REACTN TO GAY MARRIAGE THE U.S.
- WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
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. * gay marriage june 26 2015 *
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. Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W.
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. “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.
HOW WE CHANGED OUR THKG ON GAY MARRIAGE
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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.
JUNE 26, 2015 – US SUPREME COURT MAK GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ALL 50 US STAT
It's an important date not jt for gay Amerins, but for all * gay marriage june 26 2015 *
”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.
LIVE UPDAT ON #LOVEWS: THE SUPREME COURT RUL THAT GAY AND LBIAN COUPL CAN MARRY
In a landmark victory for gay rights, a divid Supreme Court led that state prohibns on same-sex marriage vlate the Constutn. * gay marriage june 26 2015 *
”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks. 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.
SUPREME COURT L GAY UPL NATNWI HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY
The U.S. lg on gay marriage led to both predictable and surprisg reactns Rsia. * gay marriage june 26 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.
THE SURPRISG RSIAN REACTN TO GAY MARRIAGE THE U.S.
As the Supreme Court nears a cisn on same-sex marriag, observers of Court history have noted that June 26 already has special signifince for cisns that have favored gay rights landmark s. * gay marriage june 26 2015 *
Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a crime.
WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
It immediately led to scen of jubilatn om ast to ast, as mpaigners, policians and everyday people – gay, straight and -between – hailed “a victory of love” lg, which Jtice Anthony Kennedy st the cidg vote, means the number of stat where gay marriage is legal will rise – albe after some stallg – om 37 to 50. Photograph: Evan Golub/Demotix/CorbisThe crowd outsi the urt – ed, across the untry – epted joy after the lg was hand down, wh many longtime mpaigners cryg tears of joy and embracg their of “Love has won” reverberated among the hundreds gathered below the urt steps and across the street outsi the US Capol, as rabow flags tertwed wh the Amerin the crowd was California reprentative Mark Takano, an openly gay member of Congrs who scribed beg at the scene as both “profound and poted”. “The arc of history is que clear that the stggle for LGBT equaly is part of our civil rights, ” Takano sex marriage discrimatnJudd Proctor, a 65-year-old rint of Silver Sprg, Maryland, said he never thought he would live to see the day that gay marriage would be a nstutnal right.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
Photograph: Eric Gay/APRandy Johnson, a platiff one of the ncurrent s brought om Kentucky before the urt wh his partner Pl Campn, said he still had goosebumps, hours after their 20-year-old son had texted them two words: “We won.
Kathie DeNobriga, the mayor of Atlanta suburb Pe Lake who married her long-term partner out of state last year as one of the few openly gay policians the Amerin south, lled the urt lg “a victory of love opposn to fear”.