NASHVILLE, Tenn. –Crowds gathered Friday afternoon as the first same-sex marriag were performed Nashville followg the U.S. Supreme Court's lg on gay marriage.Officials wh the Davidson County Clerk’s Office said they were told by the Attorney General they uld beg issug marriage lic
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE: TN PLATIFFS PROUD OF URT'S CISN
- GAY MARRIAGE: TENNSEE REACTS TO LANDMARK CISN
- GAY MARRIAGE CISN OPENS LEGAL ISSU TENNSEE
- TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
- TENNSEE LAWMAKERS CONSIR BILL THAT WOULD SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG
- SUPREME COURT TO DECI MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR GAY COUPL NATNWI
GAY MARRIAGE: TN PLATIFFS PROUD OF URT'S CISN
Supreme Court to regnize their New York one mute on Friday they learned through 22 words on a live blog that the natn's hight urt had changed their liv, those of their fay members and people the gay muny across the U. "Gay marriag begWh about 90 mut, unty clerks were given a green light to issue new licens, on that no longer said bri and groom but Applint 1 and Applint four hours of the urt's cisn, Nashville at-large uncilwoman and mayoral ndidate Megan Barry officiated the first weddg Davidson County Clerk Brenda Wynn's office. "The rights of cizens — and ncerns that the urt trampled on those — was a pot of ntentn for ntu after vioThe right of stat to make their own laws was a key pot Tennsee's se opposn to gay marriage when argued before the Supreme Court April.
GAY MARRIAGE: TENNSEE REACTS TO LANDMARK CISN
"Today a handful of Amerins on the urt have stripped the people of the eedom to mocratilly addrs the meang and role of society's most fundamental stutn, marriage, " said David Fowler, print of the Frankl-based Fay Actn Council of said the jtic "arrogantly" said they are smarter than "lns of human begs over thoands of years across the entire globe" who have ed a tradnal fn of more patchworkThe gay upl named Tennsee's part of the se — Jty and Tan, Ie DeKoe and Thom Kostura, and Matthew Mansell and Johno Espejo — all married other stat. It means gay upl will have the same legal protectns to make cisns for their ntu after slishowThe first ll DeKoe and Kostura ma after learng of the cisn was to their iends, another gay uple they knew Memphis. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken.
GAY MARRIAGE CISN OPENS LEGAL ISSU TENNSEE
Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.
Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.
"Jtice Alo asked, well then why not marry four gay men together? The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.
TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. Ernment to provi the same benefs to both gay and heterosexual upl.
That means is legally permissible to discrimate agast someone bee he or she is gay, lbian, bisexual or Supreme Court lg clarg marriage to be a fundamental liberty do not affect this law.
Beg gay — or straight for that matter — do not afford any herent rights unr the law, jt as havg blond hair, brown ey or a llege gree do we soon see lawsus filed assertg a fundamental right to be ee of discrimatn based upon sexual orientatn the wake of newfound marriage equaly? So, the duratn of the marriage is extremely issue appli equally to gay or straight upl wh one signifint difference. For gay upl, marriage was prohibed by law.
TENNSEE LAWMAKERS CONSIR BILL THAT WOULD SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG
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.
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. Supporters argue the measure is need to give relig officials, upl and others opposed to gay marriage an optn that wouldn’t nflict wh their beliefs. Crics say ’s a liberate effort to circumvent the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriage and uld lead to stly legal battl.
“This argument that is gog to set up two separate paths to marriage is blatantly unnstutnal vlatn of the Obergefell cisn, which is the law of the land, ” said attorney Abby Rubenfeld, who 2013 helped lead the challenge to Tennsee’s ban on same-sex su, which was filed by Rubenfeld, was clud the SCOTUS se that eventually legalized gay marriage 2015. “I already have our legal team back together and ready to challenge this discrimatory law as well ― and that will aga waste lns taxpayer funds when we w and llect our fe, ” she Leatherwood’s proposal would not change whether gay upl uld get married Tennsee ― they still uld ― would enact a state-sanctned divisn between straight marriag and gay marriag on the basis of certa people’s relig beliefs. 16, 2015WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to ci whether all 50 stat mt allow gay and lbian upl to marry, posng to rolve one of the great civil rights qutns a generatn before s current term ends cisn me jt months after the jtic ducked the issue, refg October to hear appeals om lgs allowg same-sex marriage five stat.
SUPREME COURT TO DECI MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR GAY COUPL NATNWI
That cisn, which was nsired a major surprise, livered a tac victory for gay rights, immediately expandg the number of stat wh same-sex marriage to 24, along wh the District of Columbia, up om 19.
Largely as a nsequence of the Supreme Court’s cisn not to act, the number of stat allowg same-sex marriage has sce grown to 36, and more than 70 percent of Amerins live plac where gay upl n s the Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday were brought by some 15 same-sex upl four stat. ”The Supreme Court’s lack of actn October and s last three major gay rights lgs suggt that the urt will le favor of same-sex marriage. But lower urts foced on other parts of his opn, on that emphasized the digny of gay relatnships and the harm that fai of gay upl suffered om bans on same-sex marriage.