How Alabama polics are motivatg a legal showdown over gay marriage | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• CAN GAY PRISON INMAT GET MARRIED NOW? CAN THEY SHARE A CELL?
• IN LOVE AND SPERATE TO MARRY: GAY ALABAMA UPLE NIED BY A JUDG' REVOLT
• GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS
• HOW ALABAMA POLICS ARE MOTIVATG A LEGAL SHOWDOWN OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA 1 YEAR LATER
• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
• TO AVOID SUPREME COURT DECISN, ALABAMA TEMPORARILY BANS GAY MARRIAGE LICENS
• ALABAMA WAS A FAL HOLDOUT ON SEGREGATN AND TERRACIAL MARRIAGE. IT ULD HAPPEN AGA ON GAY MARRIAGE.

CAN GAY PRISON INMAT GET MARRIED NOW? CAN THEY SHARE A CELL?

HistoryHomosexual activy Alabama? Homosexual activy Alabama is legal. Kay Ivey on April 7th 2022 and will go to effect on the first day of the third month followg said HB385 (2021), signed by Governor Kay Ivey April of 2021, amend Sectn 16-40A-2, Co of Alabama 1975 to strike an emphasis the state's public sex tn that " a factual manner and om a public health perspective, homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state.

Regardls, teachers Alabama still had to emphasize that homosexualy was to change legal genr Alabama? Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Alabama?

The state also regniz out-of-state gay marriag and did even before the Supreme Court lg 2015. On Saturday, Attorney General Eric Holr announced sweepg reforms to the feral jtice system signed to treat gay upl equally unr feral law. Didn’t the feral ernment already treat gay upl equally?

IN LOVE AND SPERATE TO MARRY: GAY ALABAMA UPLE NIED BY A JUDG' REVOLT

Prr to the policy shift, married gay upl were still nied spoal privilege, jot bankptcy protectns, visatn feral prisons, and survivor benefs om several feral programs. The privileg lie feral statut, which the attorney general mt terpret and enforce—and unr DOMA, they uld not be legally granted to gay upl.

In post-DOMA Ameri, however, there’s simply no reason why Holr wouldn’t extend such benefs to married gay upl. Wdsor opn, Jtice Anthony Kennedy explicly noted that DOMA “priv [gay upl] of the Bankptcy Co’s special protectns, ” cg such legal burns as a reason to strike down the law. Thanks to the new polici, any legally wed gay uple n now claim those “special protectns.

Do the polici provi gay upl wh njugal viss?

GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA BEGS, BUT ONLY PARTS

Intrigugly, the only five stat that perm such viss—California, Connecticut, New Mexi, New York, and Washgton—also regnize gay marriag. That means that every state wh njugal viss also allows gay njugal viss. The new l do allow gay feral mat visatn rights wh their same-sex spoe.

HOW ALABAMA POLICS ARE MOTIVATG A LEGAL SHOWDOWN OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Gay mat state prisons, however, rema subject to their own stat’ l. So n gay mat a feral prison get married? If two gay mat feral prison a state that regniz gay marriage choose to get married, they won’t face any legal impediments.

GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA 1 YEAR LATER

Do the new polici affect gay upl red stat? Bankptcy falls unr feral jurisdictn, so a legally married gay uple n file any feral urt, whether they live California or Kentucky, and receive special spoal protectns. Siarly, the feral ernment ns untls survivor benef programs, such as Social Secury, and n provi benefs to married gay upl no matter what state they live .

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

Holr’s new polici enroll gay upl the September 11 Victim Compensatn Fund, the Radiatn Exposure Compensatn Program, and a program for the survivors of police officers and firefighters killed on the job.

What do gay upl red stat need to do to take advantage of the new polici? Perhaps the most signifint new le is the extensn of spoal privilege to gay upl all feral urts. But a married gay uple a red state n only claim this privilege feral urt.

This shift massively heightens the importance of fom shoppg for gays.

TO AVOID SUPREME COURT DECISN, ALABAMA TEMPORARILY BANS GAY MARRIAGE LICENS

If a married gay person legal trouble n get his se to feral urt, he n claim spoal privilege.

Keh Ingram is no stranger to the daily hostily faced by gay people the ep south. He was termed wh his partner, Albert Pigg, 21, to be the first gay uple the state to be married after the US supreme urt refed jt hours earlier to halt same-sex marriag the assumed would now be a formaly, and they would immently be married.

ALABAMA WAS A FAL HOLDOUT ON SEGREGATN AND TERRACIAL MARRIAGE. IT ULD HAPPEN AGA ON GAY MARRIAGE.

“He said to that he had to see somethg om a higher urt ‘pass through his sk’ before he accepted gay marriag, tellg that a feral judge’s opn didn’t apply to him and sayg he hadn’t heard anythg about the supreme urt lg. The refenik judg have turned away same-sex upl, havg been enuraged to openly fy the natn’s hight urt by the state’s own supreme urt chief jtice, Roy Sunday night he issued an edict to probate judg Alabama orrg them to rist issug marriage licens to gay upl. ”“Growg up the south beg gay is hard.

Last month he qu his job a petrolm pany after his supervisors began makg anti-gay slurs, sayg that he was not “man enough to do that task – he mt be a faggot” knows to be reful when gog to a bar (there are no gay bars Dothan after the only one closed recently) or when walkg down the street wh his partner who om Florida and wasn’t ed to such circumspectn public. He’s often heard pastors his church g the word “fag” on the pulp and talkg about gay people as “livg eternal s”’s Christian himself, and says blsgs at the dner table, but se the difference as beg that “we have a more open attu towards love” the probate judge standoff began, there has been a wellg up of open aggrsn towards gay people that has taken the anger to a more ser level.

“There are a lot of people ready to fight agast our rights to gay marriage, ” he the longer term, though, he remas hopeful and optimistic.