Gay Marriage - DOMA, 14th Amendment & Supreme Court | HISTORY

Contents:

• 10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• 14 CELEBRI WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE GAY PEOPLE
• FORMERLY ANTI-GAY CELEBS WHO SWCHED SIS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• WERE 'FIXER UPPER' STARS CHIP AND JOANNA GA OUTED AS ANTI-GAY?
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Wh more and more openly gay celebri gracg the stag at the annual award ceremoni, seems that the old fashned views of the lik of Walt Disney and Charlton Hton are buried along wh them. Not all of the celebri on this list are explicly “anti-gay”, but they have all at some pot ma clear that they are opposed to the marriage of two people of the same sex.

There are many lists out there that claim to have done the same thg, but they ually nfe homophobia wh right-wg views on marriage: the two are not necsarily synonymo. This list is certaly not exhstive – there are many other celebri who have shocked the world wh vrlic ments directed towards gay people - but the celebri on this list are the most proment to openly oppose, what many people nsir, a legimate form of love servg of legal regnn.

A rather nfg aspect of Donald Tmp’s posn is that he has been heard fendg the gay-marriage laws of the USA (note that fense of a law is not fense of a prciple). The star of Duck Dynasty, a show that shadows the Robertson fay while they n their bs that mak duck lls, Phil Robertson was actually recently rponsible for the spensn of the show followg some rather ntroversial remarks about gay people.

14 CELEBRI WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE GAY PEOPLE

His show probably won’t suffer a signifint drop viewership – homosexuals are not renowned for their love of redneck republins – but has st the Robertson’s a signifint amount of advertisg revenue.

Once scribed by Sarah Pal as her “favore Baldw brother”, Stephen Baldw is not exactly anti gay unn – he agre civil unns should be allowed – but he jt thks that gays should not be allowed to be married “his” church. One mt wonr what “his” church is, bee the church is supposed to belong to all members, but is clear that he is not keen on the ia of gay marriage licens beg granted.

His views on gay marriage are not the only thg that Voight has ma the headl for: he has also arntly fend Israeli foreign policy and acced other celebri, cludg his former Comg Home -star Jane Fonda, of supportg those who yearn for the stctn of the middle-eastern natn. Other than the fact that she recently bought her granddghter a fairy stume, much to the annoyance of Angela, she has also exprsed rather homophobic views on Twter.

FORMERLY ANTI-GAY CELEBS WHO SWCHED SIS

Not all of them, are some stars whose anti-gay views and ments have ed a n only image how they feel about the fact that gay marriage is now legal all 50 stat, urty of the Supreme Court cidg so June of 2015.

GAY MARRIAGE

The actor got to hot water wh homophobic tweets towards wrer Gee Stark, then a separate cint, lled a photographer a “c–ks–kg f–got” which he somehow said was not a gay slur. When the Girls actrs appeared on The Ellen DeGener Show recently, she sisted she won't marry her rocker boyiend of three years until gay marriage be legal all 50 stat. People such as Ellen DeGener, Ellen Page, and Neil Patrick Harris have helped to shift the ti om rantg about anti-gay ments towards beg more clive and tolerant of others.

THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW

When he was terviewed and asked about how he felt towards gays, Mel stood up, poted to his butt, and said that gays “Take up” then he proceed to say “This is only for takg a s--t. The edic actor was left to ny any accatns that he was homophobic, and he claimed that any hateful or offensive rhetoric related to the LGBTQ muny was not a direct reflectn of his own beliefs and opns, but the damage was done. The rapper has often been cricized for the anti-gay lyrics that appear his songs, but 2010, he me out support of gay marriage sayg, "I thk if two people love each other, then what the hell?

After his openly gay dghter Mary beme pregnant, Cheney said that he was for gay marriage, but should be up to each state to make the formally anti-gay celeb are you most surprised to learn swched sis? Share your thoughts the ments Wikimedia Commons / CC-BYPhoto: Shady / Aftermath / InterspeEmem has often been cricized for the anti-gay lyrics that appear his songs.

After his openly gay dghter, Mary, beme pregnant, Cheney said that he was for gay marriage, but should be up to each state to make the Wikimedia Commons / CC-BYMt Romney has a reputatn of beg a b of a flip-flopper when to social issu. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

WERE 'FIXER UPPER' STARS CHIP AND JOANNA GA OUTED AS ANTI-GAY?

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.

Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007. For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.

Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L. Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.

“There’s no polil barometer that would have told him to get ahead of the Whe Hoe on this, ” said Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is gay and ran agast Mr.