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• TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
• TENNSEE LAWMAKERS CONSIR BILL THAT WOULD SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG
• 'TENNSEE NATURAL MARRIAGE DEFENSE ACT' SEEKS TO STRIP GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS
• LLIE JON SLAMS TENNSEE’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘WE REALLY GOG BACK HUH?!’
• GAY MARRIAGE

TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM

Supporters argue the measure is need to give relig officials, upl and others opposed to gay marriage an optn that wouldn’t nflict wh their beliefs. Crics say ’s a liberate effort to circumvent the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriage and uld lead to stly legal battl. “This argument that is gog to set up two separate paths to marriage is blatantly unnstutnal vlatn of the Obergefell cisn, which is the law of the land, ” said attorney Abby Rubenfeld, who 2013 helped lead the challenge to Tennsee’s ban on same-sex su, which was filed by Rubenfeld, was clud the SCOTUS se that eventually legalized gay marriage 2015.

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TENNSEE LAWMAKERS CONSIR BILL THAT WOULD SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG

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'TENNSEE NATURAL MARRIAGE DEFENSE ACT' SEEKS TO STRIP GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS

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LLIE JON SLAMS TENNSEE’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘WE REALLY GOG BACK HUH?!’

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GAY MARRIAGE

S., Republin lawmakers Tennsee are attemptg to turn back the clock wh a bill aimed at banng gay marriage the “Tennsee Natural Marriage Defense Act, ” which was first proposed 2016, seeks to “fend natural marriage between one man and one woman regardls of any urt cisn to the ntrary. This relig group is among the least likely to support the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer barrier that uld prevent the bill’s passage, however, is s projected st.

(Matt Sayl / Invisn / Associated Prs) Tennsee jt keeps the anti-gay laws g, and Llie Jon has had enough. ” The bill is the latt a recent wave of anti-gay and anti-trans laws and a week after Tennsee Gov. Supreme Court is expected to le June whether stat mt allow gay marriag, and if not, whether they mt regnize gay marriag licensed other state law has not been tted a way ak to this se sce the Supreme Court stck down bans on terracial marriage 1967, legal analysts say.