Mn. Senate Readi For Gay Marriage Vote - CBS Mnota

Contents:

• A RARE GLIMPSE AT MN.'S 1ST GAY WEDDG IN 1971
• SUPREME COURT: WAS GAY MARRIAGE SETTLED 1972 SE?
• NUPTIALS AT MIDNIGHT AS GAY MARRIAGE HS MN.
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) LAW
• MNOTA HERS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE MNOTA: ANOTHER MILTONE IS REACHED
• IN HISTORIC VOTE, MNOTA HOE APPROV GAY MARRIAGE BILL 75-59
• MNOTA BE 12TH US STATE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE
• MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE LAW REACH ANNIVERSARY
• MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL
• MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

A RARE GLIMPSE AT MN.'S 1ST GAY WEDDG IN 1971

The lg means gay and lbian upl who are legally married will be able to take advantage of feral tax breaks, pensn rights, and other benefs that are available to other married upl.

SUPREME COURT: WAS GAY MARRIAGE SETTLED 1972 SE?

SF977, and HF2027/SF1826 were troduced to prohib homosexual marriage. HF3016/SF1674 were troduced and stated that Mnota would not regnize homosexual marriag performed other stat. Equaly om State to State: Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Amerins and State Legislatn.

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NUPTIALS AT MIDNIGHT AS GAY MARRIAGE HS MN.

"When will gay marriage be legal Mnota? 2 (Constutn-MN Amendments and Revisn), H40 (Homosexualy), M22 (Marriage).

It's been a lifetime stggle for many, cludg one Mneapolis uple who are believed to be the first gay uple the Uned Stat to be married - 42 years ago. The monstrators who fought to legalize gay marriage Mnota owe a bt to this Mneapolis uple who now shun publicy, but who once shocked the natn to awarens.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) LAW

Tonight on Moore on Sunday, we'll have some ank talk about a subject ually only spoken of whispers: the subject is homosexualy, " Moore said. "I got a letter om Boston addrsed to 'Gay Hippie Mister, Mneapolis, ' and was vilifyg what I had done, " he said.

Forty-two-years later, thoands cheered as Governor Mark Dayton signed the bill legalizg gay marriage Mnota.

MNOTA HERS GAY MARRIAGE

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circu to uphold the laws would create a nflict wh two other appeals urts that have found state bans unnstutnal and almost surely force the Supreme Court to settle the issue sooner rather than Baker se started 1970, when Richard Baker and Jam Michael McConnell, two gay activists at the Universy of Mnota, applied for and were nied a marriage license ( wasn’t jt a tt; their relatnship lasted) sued, and the Mnota Supreme Court had ma short work of rejectg their claim: that the state law limg marriage to persons of the oppose sex vlated the U.

GAY MARRIAGE MNOTA: ANOTHER MILTONE IS REACHED

The urt’s subsequent cisns protectg gays om laws that sgle them out and fdg that homosexual ntact nnot be crimalized pot that directn, they s 2-to-1 cisn strikg Virgia's same-sex marriage ban, the judg of the U. Concludg that Baker gave the urt no power to reach the mers of whether stat may ban same-sex marriage would simply move the issue to the Supreme supporters of gay marriage say privately that would be the bt way for them to lose: the jtic themselv are unr no obligatn to affirm that their precsors cid 40 years ago.

Gay marriage will bee legal at midnight MnotaWeddgs are schled to be performed at urtho throughout the untry startg 12%3A00 a.

IN HISTORIC VOTE, MNOTA HOE APPROV GAY MARRIAGE BILL 75-59

Island will also legalize gay marriage on ThursdayMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dozens of Mnota gay upl ma last-mute preparatns Wednday for midnight marriag, termed to exchange vows at the earlit possible moment unr a new state law legalizg same-sex marriage. Stat to allow gay marriage, along wh the District of Columbia. The natnal gay rights group Freedom to Marry timat that about 30 percent of the U.

Populatn now liv plac where gay marriage is legal. The first gay weddgs Rho Island were planned for later Thursday Mnota, budget officials asssg the impact of the law timated that about 5, 000 gay upl would marry the first year. After voters rejected a nstutnal ban on gay marriage last fall, the state Legislature this sprg moved to make Island be the last New England state to allow same-sex marriage.

MNOTA BE 12TH US STATE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE

She said the chapel had four more gay upl booked for weddgs the next five days. "When I figured out I was gay, I was 14 … I'm now 63, " she said. They were surround by dozens of legislators who had voted favor of the measure, as well as several gay and lbian advot who had long fought for marriage equaly.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE LAW REACH ANNIVERSARY

The sweat trickled down Craig Jabson's neck as he played French horn the Freedom Band, a gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr group of micians that led the para to downtown's Elab Plaza, where a rnival atmosphere reigned.

Polls show the state and natn rema divid on gay marriage, but wh acceptance growg. Mnota is the first marriage equaly state which jt a few short months ago analysts were still predictg gay marriage would be banned the state's nstutn a ballot measure. Jt two years ago Mnota's then-Republin-led legislature voted to put a gay marriage ban on the ballot 2012.

Of the four stat votg on gay marriage the fall of 2012, Mnota was viewed by polil analysts and many gay activists as the long shot for a w by gays. Mnota's marriage equaly w also reprents a stgg blow to the anti-gay evangelil right. This is the state that brought Michele Bachmann, a GOP member of Congrs who was nng for print jt a year ago, and an evangelil Christian who ma her polil reer by phg boilerplate relig bigotry about gays, cludg parg them to Satan.

MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL

Wh a hband, Marc, who ns "pray away the gay" clics Mnota, she's been a lear the relig right across the untry, even often takg cred for anizg anti-gay activists Mnota to get the marriage amendment on the ballot last fall. It was the hope of anti-gay forc natnwi that Michele Bachmann would keep the ti of gay marriage back.

MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

Barrg a Supreme Court lg June the Prop 8 se that gays and lbians have a nstutnal right to marry, we'll have to get bans on gay marriage overturned over 30 stat before movg on to actually passg marriage equaly those stat. As he has for seven years, gay activist Doug Benson stood quietly outsi the Hoe chamber, his two iPads flashg, “Marriage Equaly. The sharp divisns remag wh the state were evint a Star Tribune Mnota Poll two months ago that showed a majory of Mnotans still opposed to liftg the legal ban on gay marriage.

Glenn Genhagen, R-Glene, said he fears that schools eventually will be forced to teach stunts about homosexualy sex tn class, normalizg what he nsirs viant behavr. “I am not a homophobe or a Neanrthal or a hater, ” he said. By the middle of the day, gay and lbian advot were packg the Capol, wearg orange-and-blue “Support Marriage” stickers and shirts.

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