The Supreme Court's cisn to ny appeals for five stat that wanted to ban same-sex marriage opens the door for expansn of gay unns
Contents:
- HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
8 Wyomg beme the latt state to legalize gay marriage Tuday after state lawyers filed a legal notice sayg they would not appeal a urt cisn that overturned the state’s same-sex marriage ban. That means gay upl n now marry the state where gay teen Matthew Shepherd was beaten to ath 1998, what beme known as a high-profile hate-crime. The news after a feral judge stck down Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban Friday, makg Wyomg the latt a seri of urt cisns that have opened the door for gay marriage that state and 12 others this month.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
The cisn to ny appeals signals that the Supreme Court agreed wh lower urts’ lgs that rtrictns on gay marriage were unnstutnal, but the Court did not yet want to make a sweepg lg that appli to all 50 stat. Colorado, North Carola, and Wt Virgia have already dited they will allow gay upl to marry.
On October 7, a feral urt San Francis clared Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage bans unnstutnal. 12, an Alaska urt overturned the state’s 16-year old nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, allowg same-sex upl to marry for the first time.
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
Governor Sean Parnell said the state would appeal, but that se would go to the Nth Circu, the same urt that stck down Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage ban.
The above map currently shows where gay upl n and n’t get married, as of Oct. In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman. The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U.
District Court judge led that the state’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriag had no “legimate purpose.