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• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW.  BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT.  THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL.  THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI.  READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW.  THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER
• GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?
• FLORIDA METHODIST CONFERENCE VOT TO LET 55 CHURCH LEAVE OVER FEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE, CLERGY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERERIC LUTZ
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAG BEG FLORIDA

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW.  BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT.  THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL.  THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI.  READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW.  THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER

Supreme Court's landmark cisn Friday relegat Florida's gay marriage ban to the bwebbed rners of urt's lg brgs closure to a yearslong battle between same-sex upl seekg the right to marry and to have their out-of-state marriag regnized, and the state's Republin lears, who have fought at every turn. Although gay marriage beme legal Florida January, has remaed on appeal to the 11th U.

Circu Court of Appeals Atlanta, wag for the Supreme Court to ci whether gay upl had the right to marry ban "is ad, " said Elizabeth Whe, a Jacksonville civil rights attorney who helped brg one of the s that led to a feral judge's cisn last year strikg down the state's same-sex marriage ban. "The urt's 5-4 lg that all gay marriage bans are unnstutnal bookends s of tirels activism natnally and Florida, where lawmakers have passed some of the untry's tought antigay laws and where Ana Bryant's csa agast homosexuals the 1970s ma her a natnal celebry for the relig right. Although attus toward gay men and lbians have shifted rapidly across the Uned Stat, Florida's legislature remas eply divid.

GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?

A few months ago, Tallahassee lawmakers voted to repeal the state's 30-year ban on adoptns by same-sex upl, but also nsired a measure allowg private adoptn agenci to reject would-be parents who are gay. "Reactn om gay rights advot arrived swiftly and joyoly, as many celebrated the certaty that gay marriage Florida would rema a legal right.

District Court gay marriage opponents predicted the lg would spire public backlash, jt as the urt's 1973 cisn Roe vs.

FLORIDA METHODIST CONFERENCE VOT TO LET 55 CHURCH LEAVE OVER FEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE, CLERGY

"It's very nfg why they want to let gays be happy. … We n't say that gays are gog to be wele to e here and get married.

Petersburg, passed domtic partnership registri, the state ban cut off gay upl om many of the fancial and legal rights of beg recently, many gay upl livg Florida who were married other stat uld not get divorced. District Judge Robert Hkle led Florida's gay marriage ban unnstutnal and rejected Bondi's requt that he lay his cisn om takg effect while she appealed.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

6, Florida beme the 36th state to allow gay Whe, who was born and raised Florida, the fact that state's marriage ban fell six months before the Supreme Court terced is a victory on s own. "• • •Yet many months after gay marriage beme legal here, not everyone readily accepts as the new realy.

Immediately after Florida's marriage ban fell, more than a dozen clerks of urt, many of them the most nservative regns of the state, chose to stop holdg marriage ceremoni for anyone, rather than perform them for gay upl. In most of the Panhandle and parts of Central Florida, same-sex upl who wish to marry n get marriage licens om clerks, but have no choice but to fd their own is still the policy Pas County, where the clerk of urt has said that most of her staff who oversee marriage licens are "unfortable" officiatg same-sex state agenci, such as the Bure of Val Statistics, have rpond to the legalizatn of gay marriage wh burecratic lethargy.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Although hundreds of gay upl have married Florida, the bure still prts marriage licens wh the words "bri" and "groom. " Gay upl have also n to difficulty when tryg to have their marriag regnized on birth and ath legal experts said the Supreme Court's cisn will likely force slow-movg or reluctant agenci to regnize upl' unns. "There have been some enti that have been wag to implement full marriage equaly all aspects until there was a more, their md, fal lg, " said Elizabeth Schwartz, an attorney who sued on behalf of gay upl Miami-Da to overturn the same-sex marriage ban.

RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERERIC LUTZ

"Though eager to celebrate the victory, some gay rights advot utned that the legal battle for full equaly Florida is far om over. Although at least 10 unti Florida, cludg Hillsborough and Pellas, have passed laws prohibg workplace discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty, throughout much of the state is still legal to fire people or ny them hog for beg gay or transgenr. "At the same time, you n get married today and fired tomorrow for beg gay Florida.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.

When Florida’s ban on same-sex marriag lifts at midnight, the Sunshe State will bee the send-largt state the Uned Stat after California to perm gay marriage, and raise the tally of stat where same-sex upl n marry the U. What do this mean for gay upl Florida?

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Several urt clerks are already planng to issue nuptial licens to gay upl startg at 12:01 a. The legal wranglg over gay marriage Florida go back to 2008, when a voters the state passed a nstutnal amendment fg marriage the state as “the legal unn of only one man and one woman. Sce then, five s were brought Florida challengg the state’s 2008 gay marriage ban, and judg all the s unequivolly the ban unnstutnal.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Former Florida ernor Jeb Bh, who has announced he is explorg a printial n 2016, opposed gay marriage durg his ernorship, and didn’t endorse this week’s liftg of the stay. ” But the former ernor wasn’t publicly enthiastic 2008 about the succsful mpaign to ban gay marriage. He has also utned his party agast beg perceived as too “anti-gay.

” Later on Monday a note to the New York Tim, Bh avoid takg a firm stand on the end of the gay marriage ban. “I hope that we n show rpect for the good people on all sis of the gay and lbian marriage issue—cludg upl makg lifetime mments to each other who are seekg greater legal protectns and those of who believe marriage is a sacrament to safeguard relig liberty.

GAY MARRIAGE

Alli for Equaly Florida, a civil rights group for lbian, gay, bisexual, trangenr and queer rints, have troduced repeal proposals every year sce the 2015 U. By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.

As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.

Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W.

GAY MARRIAG BEG FLORIDA

Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. READ: Bin signs gay marriage bill at Whe Hoe ceremony While the Florida ban has not been effect, the Republin-ntrolled Legislature has not removed om state law. Hodg, 1 the cizens of Florida now have a firm answer to the qutn, “Is gay marriage legal?

4 The Uned Stat Supreme Court has firmly tablished that all gay Floridians are entled to the same benefs of marriage/divorce as heterosexual Floridians. While is anticipated that gay Floridians will no longer have trouble obtag a marriage license or dissolvg their marriag, is not far-fetched to expect that some ernment employe/officials unfaiar wh the new law of the land or otherwise personally opposed to same-sex marriage may still hr same-sex upl om exercisg their newly tablished rights.

Consequently, gay Floridians should unrstand that they may still face some unique “bumps the road” when alg wh matrimonial issu and should nsir ntactg an attorney if they enunter ristance to the exercise of their rights.