Tennsee's anti-gay marriage bill sparks bipartisan cricism

Contents:

• 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.

TENNSEE LAWMAKERS CONSIR BILL THAT WOULD SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG

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.

“I already have our legal team back together and ready to challenge this discrimatory law as well ― and that will aga waste lns taxpayer funds when we w and llect our fe, ” she Leatherwood’s proposal would not change whether gay upl uld get married Tennsee ― they still uld ― would enact a state-sanctned divisn between straight marriag and gay marriag on the basis of certa people’s relig beliefs.

'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?!’

Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Tennsee?

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. In the five stat wh the most people movg to Tennsee, only Florida allows gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE

But even that is beg challenged urt, and urt s are pendg the other four stat — Geia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas — acrdg to Freedom to Marry, a natnal group that advot for same-sex the ne stat sharg a borr wh Tennsee, only Virgia and North Carola have gay marriage laws that are unntted.

It creat a natnal checkerboard that gay upl say is unnstutnal, while stat like Tennsee fend their laws sayg is the public's right to vote for tradnal marriage Tennsee Associate Solicor General Joseph Whalen argued Tennsee's se last Tuday before the U. Current laws prohib regnizg marriag among certa closely related fay members and gay unns. Mississippi: 17 for men, 15 for women for mimum age for parental nsent; ban on gay marriage pendg oute of appeals urt se.