The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constutn | Origs

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE AND THE 10TH AMENDMENT
• THE GAY-MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: A DANGER TO THE CONSTUTN

GAY MARRIAGE

A society that believ 's perfectly fe wh murrg the unborn, or allowg two people of the same genr to "marry, " is ill equipped to ern a native Iowan, I n show you firsthand how a Tenth Amendment approach to "gay marriage" led to the U. Immediately, those who advoted for "gay marriage" Iowa looked for ways to turn his lg to a legal argument that would overturn Iowa's DOMA didn't take long, don't elect judg; they are all appoted by the ernor, but the people get a chance to terme whether or not the judge should be retaed perdilly (first at the first electn after appotment, then every 10 years thereafter).

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE 10TH AMENDMENT

" No one bothered to argue that our rights are herent and rived om God, so the notn that ernment n btow rights that didn't prevly exist, April of 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court released the unanimo opn—now know as the "Varnum Decisn"—the "gay marriage" was a right that mt be protected by the was outrage, to be sure. "Gay marriage" beme the "law" Iowa, even though not a sgle Iowa voter had a say the matter, eher directly or the procs of choosg their elected reprentativ the General Assembly. Print Obama livers remarks the Rose Garn heraldg the Supreme Court’s lg that gay and lbian upl have the right to marry Ameri.

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. 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.

THE GAY-MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: A DANGER TO THE CONSTUTN

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.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.