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Contents:

• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• PERCENTAGE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS U.S. 2021, BY RACE OF HOEHOLR
• HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 unnstutnal. The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.

This was nsistently the party group least favor of gay marriage, but 2021, for the first time, a slight majory of Republins showed support for . Chennai: As the Supreme Court of India has fally put an end to the crimalizatn of homosexualy unr Sectn 377 India, data om opn polls dit that societal acceptance might still be some way off.

While the majory remas opposed to same-sex relatnships, Indians’ views on homosexualy have bee ls rigid over time. Between 1990 and 2014, the share of Indian rponnts the WVS who believed “homosexualy is never jtifiable" fell om 89% to 24%—om an overwhelmg majory to a clear mory.

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

The fastt cle views agast homosexualy me the late 90s, while the Naz Foundatn judgement by the Delhi high urt crimalizg gay sex me only 2009. Wh 30% of Indian rponnts broadly supportive of homosexualy 2014 (the rt range om somewhat opposed to pletely opposed), the WVS plac India towards the liberal top of the distributn of 60 untri. Compared to India, opposn to homosexualy is also higher among several other Asian untri such as Cha, Sgapore and South Korea.

Another direct timate of views on homosexuals by askg the qutn: “uld you mentn a group that you would not like as neighbours"? In 2014, unmarried upl and people om a different relign or part of the untry were ls sirable as neighbours than homosexuals for survey rponnts.

Yet, this do not mean that many believe that homosexualy is “jtifiable", to e the awkward phrasg of the origal qutn. For parison, fewer people thought that cheatg on tax or avoidg a fare on public transport was never jtifiable than those that thought homosexualy was never jtifiable.

PERCENTAGE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS U.S. 2021, BY RACE OF HOEHOLR

Younger people across the world tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy than olr people, and acceptance of gay marriage has sharply accelerated the wtern world. The Supreme Court verdict will hopefully further propel the acceptance of gay people as equal cizens. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA 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 Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case.

HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

Today, majori of all but two key subgroups -- Republins (49%) and weekly churchgoers (41%) -- say gay marriag should be legally regnized. Republin support for gay marriage has hovered around the 50% mark sce 2020, wh slight majori backg 2021 and 2022. Like all other subgroups, weekly churchgoers (41%) are more supportive of gay marriage now than they were the prev two s.

Gay marriage beme the law of the land after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell cisn, and Print Joe Bin signed bipartisan legislatn to ward off future judicial attempts at undog s legaly late last year. Among many groups -- cludg olr adults, Prottants and rints of the South -- perspectiv on gay marriage have gone om majory opposn to majory support over the urse of Gallup’s trend spanng more than a quarter of a century. Compared to prr reports, Democrats reported the same level of approval for gay and lbian marriage over the past few years.