Q&A: Gay marriage begs Arkansas, but for how long? - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• A LOOK AT GAY MARRIAGE LAWS ARKANSAS
• GAY MARRIAGE ARKANSAS
• GAY MARRIAGE DON'T PLAY ARKANSASRED STATE REACTNAN ARKANSAS JUDGE'S LG STRIKE DOWN A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN IS GETTG NATNAL ATTENTN—SO WHY ARE LOL POLICIANS OM BOTH PARTI KEEPG MUM?BEN JABSUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 14, 2014 5:45AM EDT JAB SLATON/RTERSWHEN AN ARKANSAS JUDGE LED LAST WEEK THAT THE STATE'S BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UNNSTUTNAL, SET OFF A BLZ OF NATNAL ATTENTN AND SENT GAY AND LBIAN UPL SHG TO THE URTHOE, THE HOP OF GETTG MARRIED BEFORE THE BAN ULD BE RTORED BY FURTHER LIGATN. BUT SI ARKANSAS—WHICH FEATUR ONE OF THE MOST PETIVE SENATE RAC THE UNTRY AS WELL AS A CLOSELY NTTED ERNOR’S RACE—THE POLIL IMPACT HAS BEEN NEAR MIMAL. AFTER ALL, BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND THE REPUBLIN NDIDAT THIS NSERVATIVE SOUTHERN STATE ARE OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE. IN FACT, THE ONLY STATEWI OFFICIAL TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATTORNEY GENERAL DT MCDANIEL, IS LEADG THE LEGAL FIGHT URT TO RESTATE THE BAN. BUT THE FACT THAT NDIDAT OM BOTH PARTI ARE EQUALLY OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISN’T THE ONLY REASON THAT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN BLUNTED. IT'S ALSO A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD THAT ULD HURT LOL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLINS ALIKE.IN FACT, REPRENTATIV OF BOTH CUMBENT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR MARK PRYOR AND HIS GOP CHALLENGER, REP. TOM COTTON, DODGED MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR MENT OM THE DAILY BEAST ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ACRDG TO JAY BARTH, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT HENDRIX COLLEGE, WHILE OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MAY HELP PRYOR AND FORMER REP. MIKE ROSS, THE DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, DIFFERENTIATE THEMSELV OM THE NATNAL PARTY, THE ISSUE ALSO HELPS COTTON AND FORMER REP. ASA HUTCHSON, THE GOP NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, BY ADDG EXTRA FUEL TO THE PARTY’S SOCIAL NSERVATIVE BASE. BARTH FURTHER NOTED THAT NEHER COTTON OR HUTCHSON ARE KNOWN AS SOCIAL NSERVATIVE DIEHARDS, WHICH LSENS THE IMPACT. FOR THE REPUBLINS, BEATG THE ANTI-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DM WOULD ALSO BE SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC FOR THEIR MPAIGNS. WHILE COTTON HAS RECENTLY BEEN NNG POSIVE BGRAPHIL ADS AN ATTEMPT TO BOOST HIS LAGGG POLL NUMBERS, HIS MSAGE HAS FOCED ON OBAMARE AND TYG PRYOR TO THE NATNAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. TALKG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER SOCIAL ISSU WOULD TAKE HIM DOWN A SI PATH.THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ARKANSAS IS LIKELY TO NTUE FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AS THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT NSIRS A MOTN TO STAY THE FRIDAY’S LG ALLOWG GAY WEDDGS THE STATE. BUT WHILE MAY RAGE THE URTROOM, FOR NOW, DON’T SEEM LIKELY TO HAVE AN EFFECT AT THE BALLOT BOX. BEN JABS
• Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ARKANSAS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
• GAY UPL MARRY ARKANSAS, MOST CLERKS S OUT
• GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020

A LOOK AT GAY MARRIAGE LAWS ARKANSAS

HistoryHomosexual activy Arkansas? Homosexual activy Arkansas is legal.

GAY MARRIAGE ARKANSAS

Current statSce Oct 29, 2001Legal Supreme Court overturned 1977 law banng homosexual activySame-sex marriage Arkansas? 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 Arkansas? Arkansas beme the first southern state to issue marriage licens to gay upl.

Over the past three months, feral judg four other stat have said banng gay marriage is unnstutnal, but unlike Piazza’s cisn, the judg Kentucky, Virgia and Texas stayed their cisns, th not allowg marriage licens to be issued. ” The judge also overturned a 1997 state law banng gay marriage. “Our natn is prently engaged a divisive bate over the place of homosexual people our society, and last Friday’s cisn of Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza to overturn the 2004 amendment to the Arkansas Constutn fg marriage as the unn of one man and one woman provis an opportuny to offer the sights of the Catholic Church to each si of this ntent issue, as well as a way forward nsistent wh the teachg of J Christ.

GAY MARRIAGE DON'T PLAY ARKANSASRED STATE REACTNAN ARKANSAS JUDGE'S LG STRIKE DOWN A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN IS GETTG NATNAL ATTENTN—SO WHY ARE LOL POLICIANS OM BOTH PARTI KEEPG MUM?BEN JABSUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 14, 2014 5:45AM EDT JAB SLATON/RTERSWHEN AN ARKANSAS JUDGE LED LAST WEEK THAT THE STATE'S BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UNNSTUTNAL, SET OFF A BLZ OF NATNAL ATTENTN AND SENT GAY AND LBIAN UPL SHG TO THE URTHOE, THE HOP OF GETTG MARRIED BEFORE THE BAN ULD BE RTORED BY FURTHER LIGATN. BUT SI ARKANSAS—WHICH FEATUR ONE OF THE MOST PETIVE SENATE RAC THE UNTRY AS WELL AS A CLOSELY NTTED ERNOR’S RACE—THE POLIL IMPACT HAS BEEN NEAR MIMAL. AFTER ALL, BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND THE REPUBLIN NDIDAT THIS NSERVATIVE SOUTHERN STATE ARE OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE. IN FACT, THE ONLY STATEWI OFFICIAL TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATTORNEY GENERAL DT MCDANIEL, IS LEADG THE LEGAL FIGHT URT TO RESTATE THE BAN. BUT THE FACT THAT NDIDAT OM BOTH PARTI ARE EQUALLY OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISN’T THE ONLY REASON THAT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN BLUNTED. IT'S ALSO A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD THAT ULD HURT LOL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLINS ALIKE.IN FACT, REPRENTATIV OF BOTH CUMBENT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR MARK PRYOR AND HIS GOP CHALLENGER, REP. TOM COTTON, DODGED MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR MENT OM THE DAILY BEAST ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ACRDG TO JAY BARTH, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT HENDRIX COLLEGE, WHILE OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MAY HELP PRYOR AND FORMER REP. MIKE ROSS, THE DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, DIFFERENTIATE THEMSELV OM THE NATNAL PARTY, THE ISSUE ALSO HELPS COTTON AND FORMER REP. ASA HUTCHSON, THE GOP NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, BY ADDG EXTRA FUEL TO THE PARTY’S SOCIAL NSERVATIVE BASE. BARTH FURTHER NOTED THAT NEHER COTTON OR HUTCHSON ARE KNOWN AS SOCIAL NSERVATIVE DIEHARDS, WHICH LSENS THE IMPACT. FOR THE REPUBLINS, BEATG THE ANTI-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DM WOULD ALSO BE SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC FOR THEIR MPAIGNS. WHILE COTTON HAS RECENTLY BEEN NNG POSIVE BGRAPHIL ADS AN ATTEMPT TO BOOST HIS LAGGG POLL NUMBERS, HIS MSAGE HAS FOCED ON OBAMARE AND TYG PRYOR TO THE NATNAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. TALKG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER SOCIAL ISSU WOULD TAKE HIM DOWN A SI PATH.THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ARKANSAS IS LIKELY TO NTUE FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AS THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT NSIRS A MOTN TO STAY THE FRIDAY’S LG ALLOWG GAY WEDDGS THE STATE. BUT WHILE MAY RAGE THE URTROOM, FOR NOW, DON’T SEEM LIKELY TO HAVE AN EFFECT AT THE BALLOT BOX. BEN JABS

“On one si are those who would perpetuate the margalizatn of homosexuals, nostalgic for a past when the social — and legal — nsequenc of the disclosure of same-sex attractn were so onero that many people rigned themselv to a life that did not rrpond to the ept yearngs of the heart. The Church has nsistently cried the jtice of this approach, choosg stead to adopt a posive teachg regardg the human rights of homosexuals.

For example, 1997 the Uned Stat Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a pastoral msage on this very pot: “Always Our Children: A Pastoral Msage to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggtns for Pastoral Misters. The sexual plementary necsary for marriage is absent attempted homosexual unns. “Thankfully, the teachg of the Church provis a ‘third way’ that is supportive of the digny and human rights of the homosexual person, while at the same time promotg and protectg marriage as the basis of the fay, the primary un of society.

It rejects both the nmnatn of people and the affirmatn of homosexual terurse. The Church regniz that many people stggle wh matters of the heart and that chaste behavr n be a challenge for heterosexuals as well as homosexuals. In no way, however, should our fense of marriage be nsted as lackg ncern for the genue well-beg of all people, cludg homosexuals.

Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ARKANSAS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?

3% of Arkansas' populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr and around 4, 200 upl have same-sex an terview wh the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette precedg the Senate's vote, Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the LGBTQ-advocy group Human Rights Campaign, said the legislatn was a "cril step forward, but this is not the end of the le. (AP) — In clg to put on hold a judge's lg that overturned Arkansas' nstutnal gay marriage ban, the state Supreme Court on Wednday created some nfn bee offered no directn to unty clerks who had poted to another part of state law that also bans gay marriage.

On 17 Febary 2011, Associate Jtice Donald L Corb, for the majory a 5–2 cisn of the Arkansas Supreme Court, upheld the award of visatn rights to a woman whose partner a same-sex relatnship gave birth to a child, a lg the urt says follows the law even though Arkansas has outlawed homosexual marriage [C1.

The Advote: Arkansas Supreme Court Overl Child Visatn Ban for Cohabatg Gay Parents 21 NOV 13. Gay Cy News: Unequal Equaly for Lbian Mom 28 SEP 11. On 23 Febary 2015, the adle for Governor Asa Hutchson to veto the anti-anti-discrimatn Bill SB 202 – that seeks to prevent ci and unti om protectg the civil rights of gay people – passed and the Bill beme law and will e to effect 90 days after the legislature formally adjourns, which is currently set for May [R1.

GAY UPL MARRY ARKANSAS, MOST CLERKS S OUT

The ordance challeng a new Arkansas law cricized as anti-gay [R3. In Febary 1998, the mayor of Salt Lake Cy refed to veto the repeal of an ordance protectg gays and lbians om discrimatn. On 06 November 2015, Circu Judge Doug Mart the Washgton County 4th Judicial Circu Court nied Protect Fayetteville’s opponents’ requt to stay implementatn of Fayetteville Ordance 5781 – protectg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr cizens and visors agast discrimatn employment.

GayStarNews: Arkansas ernor surpris by refg to sign anti-gay ‘relig liberty’ bill current form 01 APR 15.

GayStarNews: Arkansas legislature pass ‘relig eedom’ bill siar to one g firtorm Indiana 31 MAR 15. GayStarNews: Arkansas Senate pass ‘relig eedom’ bill permtg discrimatn agast gay ctomers 27 MAR 15.

GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020

BsInsir: Gay rights supporters sre two victori nservative Arkansas 13 MAY 15. TheRepublic: An Arkansas judge has upheld a cy’s ordance banng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty, lg don’t nflict wh a state law aimed at blockg lol protectns for gays and lbians 01 MAR 16. Homosexualy, Sodomy.

In 1996, anal and oral sex was unlawful for both homosexuals and heterosexuals [R1.

In October 2001, Lambda Legal Defense and Edutn Fund, on behalf of seven Arkansas lbians and gay men, was urgg the Arkansas Supreme Court to strike down the state’s ban on sex between nsentg adults of the same genr [R2. On 28 January 1998, the Lambda Legal Defence and Edutn Fund (LLDEF) announced a lawsu on behalf of seven lbians and gay men agast the state’s sodomy ban [R2. Arkansas High Court Consirs Gay Sex Ban 31 OCT 01.