Massachetts legaliz gay marriage

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

How to get married Massachetts, Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), July 2015. A legal gui for lbian and gay upl by Frerick Hertz, Nolo, 2020.

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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.

FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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. The uple relled anti-gay-marriage protters outsi the urthoe wavg picket signs wh hateful slogans like “God hat fags.

MASSACHETTS COURT LIMS GAY MARRIAGE TO RINTS

“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.

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.

MASSACHETTS GAY MARRIAGE TO REMA LEGAL

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. He lled on urt clerks to ask same-sex upl to state that they eher live Massachetts or tend to live the state orr to receive a clerks refed, and out-of-state upl were expected to mount legal challeng to the 1913 Alliance for Marriage, which has anized ralli opposg same-sex marriage, had said earlier would not prott Bonto, an attorney wh Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, lled Monday a "historic day" durg which rights were extend.

"Gays and lbians have challenged marriage laws a number of stat, cludg Oregon and California.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Supreme Court was expected on Wednday to issue lgs two major s relatg to gay first three stat to allow gay marriage did so bee of urt lgs permtg , rather than through legislative actn or puttg the issue to voters to ci. Sce mid-2009, six stat have approved gay marriage laws by passg laws state legislatur and three stat by ballot California, same-sex marriage was legal briefly 2008 followg a urt lg permtg .

Later that year, voters approved Proposn 8, which banned gay marriage. Supreme is a look at the stat that have approved gay ORDERS* MASSACHUSETTS - In 2003, Massachetts beme the first state to allow gay marriage after s hight urt led the state’s ban vlated the nstutnal rights of same-sex upl.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION* VERMONT - In 2009, Vermont beme the first state to legalize gay marriage by legislative means.