Indiana's gay marriage bate highlights possible crim

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN INDIANA, SUPREME COURT DENI CASE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• INDIANA'S GAY MARRIAGE BATE HIGHLIGHTS POSSIBLE CRIM

GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN INDIANA, SUPREME COURT DENI CASE

Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people? Support of homosexualy by US state? HistoryHomosexual activy Indiana?

Homosexual activy Indiana is legal.

GAY MARRIAGE

Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Indiana?

Several same sex upl who took part the lawsus challengg Indiana's gay marriage ban gathered at ACLU-Indiana's office Indianapolis jt hours after the news me down that their marriag were once aga legal. A feral judge stck down Indiana's ban on same-sex marriag Wednday, leavg state officials, lawmakers, social nservativ, gay rights supporters and legal experts scramblg to sort out exactly what the cisn means — and what will happen for the hundreds of gay and lbian upl who shed to urtho across the state for impromptu weddgs, the judge's words meant somethg simple, yet signifint: They uld fally be married monumental lg by U. "Supporters of gay rights saw the lg as a historic victory their long stggle for equaly Councilman Zach Adamson, who married his longtime partner Washgton, D.

"Sanrs said gay upl who married, expectg to enjoy all the rights and privileg afford to married male-female upl, uld fd themselv havg to return to urt to sort out their rights and Mike Pence, a steadfast advote of one-man, one-woman marriage, supports the attorney general's appeal and "Indiana's right to fe the stutn of marriage for the rints of our state, " spokwoman Kara Brooks said a statement.

INDIANA'S GAY MARRIAGE BATE HIGHLIGHTS POSSIBLE CRIM

Supreme Court cisn gave full feral regnn to legally married gay upl. 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. 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.