Rulg to strike down Michigan gay marriage ban put on hold | Rters

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• RULG TO STRIKE DOWN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE BAN PUT ON HOLD
• JUDGE RUL MICHIGAN'S BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE UNNSTUTNAL
• FOR GAY COUPL MICHIGAN, A DAY OF JOY ENDS LEGAL UNCERTATY
• IN MICHIGAN, GAY MARRIAGE LG SPARKS CELEBRATN, NUNCIATN
• MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE LG: 'THE GUARANTEE OF EQUAL PROTECTN MT PREVAIL'
• RULG TO STRIKE DOWN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE BAN PUT ON HOLD
• MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY SUPREME COURT
• HOLR: GOVERNMENT TO REGNIZE MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAG
• FERAL JUDGE STRIK DOWN MICHIGAN’S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• RULG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE LEAV HUNDREDS OF NEWLYWEDS IN LIMBO

RULG TO STRIKE DOWN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE BAN PUT ON HOLD

(Rters) - Michigan mt regnize the legal marriag of about 300 same-sex upl who were wed the state a one-day perd last year after a feral urt stck down a ban on gay marriage and before the cisn was put on hold by a U. Supreme Court nsirs whether to take up s ncerng gay marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee, all part of the Ccnati-based 6th Circu Court of Appeals lg that upheld same-sex marriage bans 6th Circu cisn stands ntrast wh four other U.

“The sooner the Uned Stat Supreme Court mak a cisn on this issue the better will be for Michigan and Ameri, ” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said a Wolfson, print of gay rights advot Freedom to Marry also urged the Supreme Court to take up same-sex marriage.

JUDGE RUL MICHIGAN'S BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE UNNSTUTNAL

They clu efforts to ban hog and job discrimatn, regnized Gay Pri month June and ban nversn therapy for LGBTQ youth.

Wh an timated 14, 598 gay upl Michigan, same-sex marriage Michigan has been a hot topic for s. But given Michigan’s long history of not supportg gay marriage, that day seemed like would never e. Better this stance, we thk, to allow change through the ctomary polil procs, which the people, gay and straight alike, bee the hero of their own stori by meetg each other not as adversari a urt system but as fellow cizens seekg to rolve a new social issue a fair-md way.

FOR GAY COUPL MICHIGAN, A DAY OF JOY ENDS LEGAL UNCERTATY

The ernment should stay out of the private liv of adults, cludg gays and lbians.

Allowg lovg and mted gay and lbian upl to marry would tell our children and grandchildren that Michigan we believe treatg others as we would want to be treated ourselv.

IN MICHIGAN, GAY MARRIAGE LG SPARKS CELEBRATN, NUNCIATN

Marriage matters to gay and lbian upl.

Gay and lbian upl want to marry for siar reasons as anyone – to make a lifetime promise of mment and rponsibily to the person they love. Denyg gay upl the eedom to marry weakens society by hurtg our muny, neighbors and fai. Allowg mted gay and lbian upl to get married do not change the meang of marriage.

↑ CNN, "Feral judge strik down Michigan's gay marriage ban, " accsed March 24, 2014. ↑ MLive, "Michigan c Supreme Court's affirmative actn lg gay marriage appeal, " May 7, 2014. 1 USA Today, "Gay marriage bans four stat upheld, Supreme Court review likely, " November 7, 2014.

MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE LG: 'THE GUARANTEE OF EQUAL PROTECTN MT PREVAIL'

2 USA Today, "Gay-marriage advot plan new Mich. Appeals urt on Saturday placed a temporary hold on a feral judge’s lg that stck down Michigan’s ban on gay marriage, a move that followed hastily arranged and joyful weddg ceremoni the women exchange rgs durg their weddg ceremony the hallway of the Oakland County Courthoe as the woman officiatg the weddg reads the marriage vows om her cell phone, after a Michigan feral judge led a ban on same-sex marriage vlat the U. Lol time rryg a heart-shaped ’s staff was among workers several unti who hand out paperwork to upl unterred by the Michigan attorney general’s immediate appeal of the judge’s Colasonti, 61, and Jam Barclay Ryr, 48, beme the first gay uple to marry the unty.

Clerics who support gay and lbian rights also arrived and found quiet rners the hallways to nduct private ceremoni for upl clutchg their newly issued at least three other unti - Washtenaw, Ingham and Mkegon - opened outsi normal bs hours on Saturday to issue marriage licens. ”Wh a temporary stay granted, same-sex upl married on Saturday uld fd themselv legal December, a feral district judge Utah overturned that state’s ban on same-sex weddgs and Utah’s attorney general 1, 300 gay upl were married Utah the few weeks before the U. Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, shown here outsi urt earlier month, nvced a feral judge to overturn Michigan's ban on gay marriage and gay Pugliano / Getty ImagMarch 21, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC / Updated March 21, 2014, 10:25 PM UTCA feral judge led Friday that Michigan's law agast same-sex marriage is lg is a victory for two Detro-area nurs, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, who went to urt to challenge a state law that barred them om jotly adoptg each other's children.

— A day after a feral judge stck down Michigan’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriag, hundreds of gay upl raced to clerks’ offic across the state on Saturday morng to exchange weddg vows before an appeals urt challenge that uld restate the the phoria of the day for the upl quickly turned to disappotment by late afternoon when the Uned Stat Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu, Ccnati, spend the judge’s lg until at least Wednday, when the urt is expected to ci whether to grant a longer junctn while nsirs an appeal filed by Michigan’s attorney general. About an hour before the temporary junctn was issued, gay rights activists’ hop of havg at least another day to perform weddgs were raised when the urt told the platiffs that they had until Tuday to rpond to the state’s requt for a stay. Several gay upl have sued the state over the issue.

RULG TO STRIKE DOWN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE BAN PUT ON HOLD

Conrad/The New York TimEqualy Michigan, which advot gay rights, sent an email to s members early Saturday wh tails of how to obta marriage licens. She then ran across town — so exced she left her r behd at work — to a muny center for gays and lbians Ann Arbor, where she celebrated wh her future wife and others.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: For Gay Coupl Michigan, a Day of Joy Ends Legal Uncertaty.

MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY SUPREME COURT

The morn gay rights movement the U. This will be a very celebrated date the gay muny om here on out. "The lg sparked celebratn across Sgatuck, where s gay mayor, former Chigoan Bill Hs, was headg to an impromptu party Friday afternoon at the Hercul Bar & Grill.

There are people who hate the gay people. "Todd Christensen, a former longtime Kalamazoo police officer and Army veteran now bartendg at the Dun pool, said he was "screamg and cryg" when he heard the news and thought of his gay relativ, cludg his sister who liv San Francis but got married Massachetts two years ago. "Gays Ameri n fally be equal wh anybody else, and they n tly fall love wh the person that they love, and they n solidify that through the sancty of marriage.

Appeals urt on Saturday placed a temporary hold on a feral judge's lg that stck down Michigan's ban on gay marriage, a move that followed hastily arranged and joyful weddg ceremoni the state. Frank Colasonti, 61, and Jam Barclay Ryr, 48, beme the first gay uple to marry the unty. Clerics who support gay and lbian rights also arrived and found quiet rners the hallways to nduct private ceremoni for upl clutchg their newly issued licens.

HOLR: GOVERNMENT TO REGNIZE MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAG

Appeals urt, gay rights group Equaly Michigan a blog post urged members to "this pse marriage equaly" to engage activism, cludg signg a petn askg the Michigan ernor and attorney general to end the state's appeal.

Some 1, 300 gay upl were married Utah the few weeks before the U. The feral ernment will regnize gay marriag Michigan that occurred between recent nflictg urt lgs, Attorney General Eric Holr announced Friday.

FERAL JUDGE STRIK DOWN MICHIGAN’S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Holr’s statement said upl married on March 22, before an appellate urt blocked a prev lg allowg gay marriage Michigan, “will be eligible for all relevant feral benefs on the same terms as other same-sex marriag. His cisn is the latt move by the Obama admistratn toward legalizg gay marriage the Uned Stat.

The divisive issue ps social and relig nservativ agast liberals and morat, wh polls showg a majory of Amerins support of gay marriage. District Judge Bernard Friedman stck down Michigan’s gay marriage ban as unnstutnal. Feral judge: Michigan state amendment barrg gay marriage is unnstutnal.

RULG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE LEAV HUNDREDS OF NEWLYWEDS IN LIMBO

Michigan is the latt state which feral judg have stck down state nstutnal bans on gay marriage. An ABC News/Washgton Post survey released earlier this month found that 59% of Amerins favor allowg gay or lbian upl to legally wed. DETROIT -- A feral appeals urt lg favor of anti-gay marriage laws four stat stunned members of the LGBT muny and left hundreds of wedd upl limbo Michigan, where the lead se of DeBoer v.

One newly married gay parent said he had thought maybe the world had changed for the better, only to fd himself still wag for regnn of his a 2-1 cisn on Thursday, the U. Circu Judge Jefey Sutton wrote that the urts don't have "a sweepg grant of thory" to ci "whether gay marriage is a good ia" and that social issu should be rolved stead through the polil procs.

The cisn was nfoundg to Jay Kaplan, a staff attorney wh the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Project of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of Michigan.