The latt gay marriage news om The Texas Tribune.
Contents:
- A YEAR LATER, TEXAS GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE SHIFTS
- TRAVIS COUNTY CLERK ISSU FIRST LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE TEXAS
- GAY MARRIAGE
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- THE EARLY WORD: GAY MARRIAGE TEXAS, NOW WHAT?
- GAY MARRIAGE: WHERE THE 2016 NDIDAT STAND
A YEAR LATER, TEXAS GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE SHIFTS
Hundreds of gay upl across Texas are reachg their one-year weddg anniversari, but ristance to same-sex marriage hasn’t gone away, ’s jt changed foc. * gay marriage in texas 2016 *
A year later, like hundreds of other gay people Texas, Ack will celebrate his first weddg anniversary on Sunday. "I'd never thought that that was gog to be a possibily for me, for any gay people, " said Ack, 37. Read More Supreme Court: Gay Marriage Bans Are Unnstutnal.
Bell said he would not be surprised to see proposals to lim the abili of ci to extend anti-discrimatn protectns to gay and transgenr people. Conservative rhetoric about relig eedom alarms gay rights advot, who often refer to relig liberty legislatn as “license to discrimate” laws. They say they are preparg to fight an onslght of legislatn they view as hostile to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people.
TRAVIS COUNTY CLERK ISSU FIRST LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE TEXAS
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday tossed out Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to undo the unn of the first gay uple to legally wed Texas. * gay marriage in texas 2016 *
In addn to lobbyg agast legislatn they oppose, gay advocy groups plan to put fort their own legislatn to addrs challeng they say gay Texans still face.
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Ack, who recently started workg at Equaly Texas, said those challeng are on his md this weekend, pecially light of the recent shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando.
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The urt gets a ltle bolr, however, when public opn aligns or ernment policy alc, and voidg a law that appli to a dwdlg number of stat fs that pattern, legal experts urt agreed this month to review s om Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee — where prohibns agast gay marriage were upheld by a feral appeals urt November — raisg expectatns that at least five jtic are poised to issue another landmark lg on marriage rights, wh a cisn likely by gay marriage legal 36 stat — 25 by urt orr, 11 via voters or legislators and Alabama still to be cid — the urt has ver to act “bee this is the way history is gog, ” said Sanford Levson, a Universy of Texas law profsor.
THE EARLY WORD: GAY MARRIAGE TEXAS, NOW WHAT?
The younger the people are, the more they support (gay marriage), and the more obv is we live a different untry om the one we did only 15 years ago, ” Levson suatn was a b different 1967, when the urt led on the se of Richard and Mildred Lovg, a whe man and a black and Amerin Indian woman who were given one-year prison sentenc — spend if they stayed out of Virgia for 25 years — for the time, polls showed most Amerins opposed terracial marriage, but 14 stat had repealed bans the prev 20 years — a trend that rerced the high urt’s willgns to attack racial segregatn unr Chief Jtice Earl Warren urt’s cisn Lovg v.
GAY MARRIAGE: WHERE THE 2016 NDIDAT STAND
Virgia not only void a Texas law that punished “any whe person and negro” who married wh two to five years prison, ntu to st a long shadow over today’s fight over gay U. ”And, jt like laws banng terracial marriage, same-sex prohibns subject gay upl to unequal and unfair treatment, he is able to ntue enforcg s same-sex ban bee Garcia layed implementg his cisn while Texas appeal, the two upl sug to overturn the state ban also drew parallels to the Lovg cisn their arguments before the 5th U. Mildred Lovg, whose hband died 1975, saw no legal distctns between gay marriage and the se that bears her name.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday tossed out Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to undo the unn of the first gay uple to legally wed Texas.