Massachetts fed a new chapter civil rights history Monday as same-sex upl began exchangg weddg vows, markg the first time a state has granted gays and lbians the right to marry.
Contents:
- 15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
- FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
- MASSACHETTS COURT LIMS GAY MARRIAGE TO RINTS
- MASSACHETTS GAY MARRIAGE TO REMA LEGAL
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
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FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
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The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens.
Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts. The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference.
“I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife. But gay uple Robert Compton and David Wilson, now happily married, n still remember how they cried when they heard the news. They me out late, and were exced to get a new start on they met 1997 at a nventn for gay fathers Boston, there was an stant nnectn.
MASSACHETTS COURT LIMS GAY MARRIAGE TO RINTS
Twelve of the 50 U.S. stat pl Washgton, D.C., have legalized gay marriage. The U.S. Supreme Court was expected on Wednday to issue lgs two major s relatg to gay marriage. * massachusetts legalizes gay marriage *
They ma their vows durg a mment ceremony at Boston’s Arlgton Street Church 2000 ont of iends and 2001, the Massachetts-based gay rights anizatn Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, or GLAD, asked the pair to be a part of the Goodridge lawsu.
MASSACHETTS GAY MARRIAGE TO REMA LEGAL
Two years after makg Massachetts the natn's first and only state to legalize gay marriage, the state Supreme Court l that, most s, same-sex partners om out of state nnot e to Massachetts to get married. * massachusetts legalizes gay marriage *
The uple relled anti-gay-marriage protters outsi the urthoe wavg picket signs wh hateful slogans like “God hat fags.
“When you actually started to see your fay, iends, neighbors get married and live their liv, and see jt how siar our fai are to other married fai, really started to stroy the wall of myths that our opponents had tried to create around the alleged negative effects of marriage equaly, bee was there person, right ont of you, ” Silva, three years after the Supreme Court's 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage across the natn — and 15 years after Massachetts did so for s rints — two three Amerins support gay marriage, acrdg to a recent Gallup days, marriage equaly feels more or ls normal to Wilson and Compton, who will celebrate their 15th anniversary broar fight for LGBTQ equaly, however, ntu, warned Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBTQ rights group. Warbelow also poted to recent bills Kansas and Oklahoma that would give fah-based adoptn agenci the abily to ny adoptn to gay and lbian upl. The mood is ftive as gay upl le up to fill out marriage license paperwork.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Hardly a day pass now whout a remark on some news channel or a blog on the state of gay marriage — wh opposg sis amg eher a step toward * massachusetts legalizes gay marriage *
MASSACHUSETTS: The Legislature, which March passed a proposed amendment to the state nstutn that would ban gay marriag but legalize Vermont-style civil unns, will aga take up the proposed amendment the 2005-06 ssn. WASHINGTON: Republins Congrs may seek a vote the g months on a proposed nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage natnwi. THE STATES: At least six stat will have ems on their ballots this fall proposg to amend their state nstutns to strengthen existg bans on gay marriage and specify that gay marriag om other stat would not be regnized.
THE COURTS: Lawsus have been filed several stat on behalf of gays seekg the right to marry, and more lawsus are likely to arise on behalf of upl married Massachetts who want their unns regnized elsewhere. In addn, a feral appeals urt will hold a hearg June on the Massachetts high urt lg legalizg gay marriag. BOSTON, Massachetts (CNN) -- Massachetts fed a new chapter civil rights history Monday as same-sex upl began exchangg weddg vows, markg the first time a state has granted gays and lbians the right to upl filled Boston's Cy Hall to receive marriage licens, Print Bh reissued what he termed an "urgent" ll for such marriag to be banned unr the Constutn.