Several same-sex upl received marriage licens om a unty Arkansas on Saturday, the morng after a judge held the Southern state’s ban on gay marriage to be unnstutnal.
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- 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
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GAY MARRIAGE ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (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. The urt simply noted that a lower urt judge had not addrsed his lg last week. * is gay marriage legal in 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.
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
” 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.
“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.
Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ARKANSAS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
The sexual plementary necsary for marriage is absent attempted homosexual unns.
GAY UPL MARRY ARKANSAS, MOST CLERKS S OUT
“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.
GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020
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.