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Contents:

• JTICE ALO TAK AIM AT GAY MARRIAGE 'POLILLY CHARGED SPEECH'
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
• GAY MARRIAGE
• WEB DIGNER AGAST GAY MARRIAGE TAK FREE SPEECH FIGHT TO SUPREME COURT
• CONSERVATIVE JTIC LEAN TOWARD ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE WEB DIGNER CASE PTG LGBTQ RIGHTS AGAST RELIG FREEDOM
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

JTICE ALO TAK AIM AT GAY MARRIAGE 'POLILLY CHARGED SPEECH'

Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights. But lgs a term’s biggt s — and this one certaly qualifi — tend not to arrive until June, no matter how early the term they were urt heard arguments the Masterpiece Cakhop se, volvg a Colorado baker who turned away a gay uple seekg a weddg ke, exactly five years ago, on Dec. 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.

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.

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. ” 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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

WEB DIGNER AGAST GAY MARRIAGE TAK FREE SPEECH FIGHT TO SUPREME COURT

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. Around that piano the 1970s Deep South, gays and lbians, whe and Black queens, Christians and non-Christians, and even early genr mori uld st asi the racism, sexism, and homophobia of the tim to fd acceptance and pannship for a moment. On the Sunday night of June 24, 1973, their voic were silenced a murro act of arson that claimed 32 liv and still stands as the adlit fire New Orleans history — and the worst mass killg of gays 20th century Ameri.

This spect, an ternally nflicted gay-for-pay sex worker named Rodger Dale Nunez, had been ejected om the UpStairs Lounge screamg the word “burn” mut before, but New Orleans police rebuffed the ttimony of fire survivors on the street and allowed Nunez to disappear. Ignorg lls for gay self-censorship, Perry held a 250-person memorial for the fire victims the followg Sunday, July 1, culmatg mourners fiantly marchg out the ont door of a French Quarter church to wag news meras.

CONSERVATIVE JTIC LEAN TOWARD ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE WEB DIGNER CASE PTG LGBTQ RIGHTS AGAST RELIG FREEDOM

Ls than a year later, he ed the money to open another gay bar lled the Post Office, where patrons of the UpStairs Lounge — some wh visible burn srs — gathered but were disuraged om sgg “Uned We Stand. An attu of nihilism and disavowal scend upon the memory of the UpStairs Lounge victims, goad by Esteve and fellow gay entreprenrs who earned their keep via gay patrons drowng their sorrows each night stead of prottg the jtic that kept them drkg. Into the 1980s, the story of the UpStairs Lounge all but vanished om nversatn — wh the exceptn of a few sanctuari for gay polil bate such as the lol lbian bar Charlene’s, n by the activist Charlene Schneir.

The New Orleans Cy Council, horrified by the story but not yet ready to take s look the mirror, enacted an anti-discrimatn ordance protectg gays and lbians hog, employment, and public acmodatns that Dec. Gay rights advot and others say that gay and lbian people want to get married for the same reasons that straight people do – they want to be rg, stable relatnships, they want to build a life and even start a fay wh someone else.

I don’t thk there is an issue that is a tougher issue for people to stand up agast Amerin culture today than this one, both om the standpot of the mastream media and the popular culture nmng you for your – they n e all sorts of words to scribe you – tolerant, bigot, homophobe, hater. The Supreme Court's nservative majory sound sympathetic Monday to a Christian graphic artist who objects to signg weddg webs for gay upl, a dispute that's the latt clash of relign and gay rights to land at the hight urt.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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.

His mg about gay men and lbians as secury risks 1973, and his support for a measure rtrictg how homosexualy was prented to schoolchildren, reflects the kd of attus that gay and lbian activists had to battle durg the early s of the movement.