On Tuday, gay upl who applied for marriage licens Kansas were turned away by unty officials, spe the U.S. Supreme Court clearg the way for same-sex marriag the state on Monday.
Contents:
- JUDGE ORRS KANSAS TO LET GAY UPL MARRY, BUT STAYS ORR UNTIL NOV. 11
- KANSAS VOTERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BAN
- JUDGE DECLAR KANSAS GAY MARRIAGE BAN UNNSTUTNAL
JUDGE ORRS KANSAS TO LET GAY UPL MARRY, BUT STAYS ORR UNTIL NOV. 11
A feral judge has led that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unnstutnal, but gay and lbian upl n’t marry jt yet. * kansas gay marriage ban *
Civil rights activists fear that gay and lbian upl uld lose their marriage rights the wake of the U.
Conservative Jtice Clarence Thomas said his Friday ncurrence that the high urt should "rensir" s tablishg rights to engage gay sex and for same-sex upl to marry. "This new visn of the Constutn will emboln state legislators to make trouble — but today, has no immediate legal effects on the right to same-sex marriage or same-sex timacy, " the Human Rights Campaign said a marriage and gay sex rema legal Kansas and the Uned Stat. "More:Clarence Thomas lls for Supreme Court to 'rensir' gay marriage, ntraceptn after Roe v.
The crimal sodomy fn Kansas clus gay sex among nsentg adults, spe the provisn beg unnstutnal unr Lawrence v. Separately Wednday, a feral judge stck down South Carola's ban on same-sex marriage as natn's hight urt nied a requt om Kansas to prevent gay and lbian upl om marryg while the state fights the issue urt.
KANSAS VOTERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BAN
Kansas on Tuday beme the 18th and latt state to pass a nstutnal amendment barrg gay marriage. But the Senate Connecticut — New England, the one regn holdg out on the issue — on Wednday voted to legalize civil unns. * kansas gay marriage ban *
The orr is nsistent wh how the jtic have handled recent requts om other stat that have sought to keep their bans place while they appealed lower urt lgs favor of gay and lbian upl. However, Kansas' emergency appeal was closely watched to see if the urt would change s practice followg last week's appellate lg upholdg anti-gay marriage laws Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee. Kansas, South Carola and Montana all have refed to allow gay upl to obta marriag licens spe lgs om feral appeals urts that oversee them.
Gay-rights advot saw the Supreme Court's actn Wednday as another sign they're likely to ultimately prevail. "Now, this is a day to celebrate, " said Tom Wt, executive director of the gay rights group Equaly, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt matas the lg appli only Douglas and Sedgwick unti, bee the ACLU's lawsu was prompted by judg' orrs there. Schmidt has promised to fend the state's gay-marriage ban urt as long as he n, and fellow Republin Gov.
Louis each clared s ban unnstutnal, and gay-rights advot urged the state's attorney general not to appeal. Wednday's two-sentence orr om the Supreme Court noted nservative Jtic Anton Slia and Clarence Thomas would allow Kansas to ntue enforcg s gay-marriage ban. A feral judge has led that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unnstutnal, but gay and lbian upl n’t marry jt Daniel Crabtree granted a stay on his orr, which lls for unty urt clerks to issue same-sex upl marriage licens, until Nov.
JUDGE DECLAR KANSAS GAY MARRIAGE BAN UNNSTUTNAL
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It seems a n’t-lose proposn: Ask voters to ban same-sex marriag and they nsistently endorse the ia, om the South to the on Tuday beme the 18th and latt state to pass a nstutnal amendment barrg gay marriage. Wh nservativ phg to fe marriage as between a man and woman throughout the untry, siar proposals are on the ballot three other stat next year and more than a dozen are nsirg England has been the major holdout; there, legislators and judg have strengthened rights for gays and lbians. If the bill be law, Connecticut would be the only state to do so whout a urt orr mandg lawmakers voted by a more than 2-to-1 marg Tuday to ban gay marriag and civil unns, and voters also oted the lone gay cy uncil member Topeka, Tiffany Muller, who had feated an emphatilly anti-gay opponent the England seized on by both sisThe New England exampl — most cisively Vermont’s civil unns and Massachetts’ legalized gay marriag — are seen by ban supporters as the threat that’s helpg their e.
Advot for gay marriage also see those exampl as a pl, by provg that fears gay marriage will somehow stroy society’s social fabric are unfound.
“The more plac that we are able to extend the same rights and rponsibili to all Amerins, the more plac we’ve got a light to she on what’s happeng, ” said Joe Solmone, print of Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights lobbyg group. “People are gog on wh their liv, gay and lbian upl are raisg their fai and livg their liv like everyone else. ”New England stat aren’t the only on to offer gay rights activists hope.