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Contents:

• A YEAR LATER, TEXAS GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE SHIFTS
• TRAVIS COUNTY CLERK ISSU FIRST LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE TEXAS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE EARLY WORD: GAY MARRIAGE TEXAS, NOW WHAT?
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHERE THE 2016 NDIDAT STAND

A YEAR LATER, TEXAS GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE SHIFTS

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. 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.

TRAVIS COUNTY CLERK ISSU FIRST LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE TEXAS

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. 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 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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

Two At women were married Thursday morng on a state judge’s orrs, igng celebratns om supporters and nmnatn om the state’s Republin lears, cludg Attorney General Ken Paxton, who vowed to void the Goodiend and Suzanne Bryant, together almost 31 years, said their vows before Rabbi Kerry Baker while standg ont of the Travis County clerk’s office sign as Airport Boulevard traffic mbled beme the first legally married gay uple Texas to cri of “Mazel tov! DeBevoir, a Democrat who supports gay marriage, emphasized that her office was actg unr the directn of a state judge and would be issug no addnal marriage licens to same-sex as word of the marriage spread quickly through social media, Shellie Shor and Rosemary Wag arrived at the unty offic Thursday morng hopg to get their own marriage license. The Hoe managed to make a fight out of the one issue that there seemed to be universal agreement on the Legislature, while the Texas Supreme Court cid they want to hear arguments about gay marriage after all.

At several pots that hearg, the ttimony flared to the kd of vuperative opposn to gay and lbian rights that would have pleased Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia, who died over the weekend near Marfa.

GAY MARRIAGE

The stak of choosg Slia’s succsor on the high urt uldn’t be higher, cludg among Republins whose fah the urt was shaken by the urt’s cisns affirmg gay marriage and the Constutnaly of the Affordable Care Act – cisns om which Jtice Slia dissented wh characteristic lor. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won't fend state agency gay marriage se.

Fifteen years after landmark gay rights se, same-sex upl Texas still face challeng urt. On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court stck down a Texas law banng gay sodomy — a watershed moment for gay rights. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday threw out a lower urt lg that said spo of gay and lbian public employe are entled to ernment-subsidized same-sex marriage benefs.

THE EARLY WORD: GAY MARRIAGE TEXAS, NOW WHAT?

An anti-gay-marriage protter ont of the U.

(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Imag)The Supreme Court will hear arguments begng Tuday four s that may terme whether same-sex upl have the right to marry, thstg the issue of gay marriage to the 2016 printial Amerins support gay marriage. But the same survey found 63 percent of Republins oppose allowg gay upl to where do the crop of current and possible 2016 printial ndidat stand? Unclear• Posn on gay marriage: OpposedCz is arguably the most vol opponent of gay marriage among all the 2016 hopefuls.

“Today’s Democratic Party has bee so radilized for legalizg gay marriage all 50 stat that there is no longer any room for relig liberty, ” Cz said.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHERE THE 2016 NDIDAT STAND

“He recently troduced legislatn — the Rtoratn of Marriage Amendment and Protect Marriage om the Courts Act — to allow Amerins to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman and protect stat that bar same-sex Cz also lled on a 100, 000-pastor work to lead the natn prayer while the Supreme Court hears arguments over gay marriage that didn’t stop the Texas Republin and 2016 printial ndidate om holdg urt at an event held a Manhattan apartment owned by two proment gay hoteliers. “On the subject of marriage, when asked, I stated directly and unambiguoly what everyone the room already knew, that I oppose gay marriage and I support tradnal marriage.

”Gay rights groups lled for a boytt of all properti owned by the pair, who promptly apologized.