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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
• IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
• GAY MARRIAGE BATE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

It immediately led to scen of jubilatn om ast to ast, as mpaigners, policians and everyday people – gay, straight and -between – hailed “a victory of love” lg, which Jtice Anthony Kennedy st the cidg vote, means the number of stat where gay marriage is legal will rise – albe after some stallg – om 37 to 50.

Photograph: Evan Golub/Demotix/CorbisThe crowd outsi the urt – ed, across the untry – epted joy after the lg was hand down, wh many longtime mpaigners cryg tears of joy and embracg their of “Love has won” reverberated among the hundreds gathered below the urt steps and across the street outsi the US Capol, as rabow flags tertwed wh the Amerin the crowd was California reprentative Mark Takano, an openly gay member of Congrs who scribed beg at the scene as both “profound and poted”. “The arc of history is que clear that the stggle for LGBT equaly is part of our civil rights, ” Takano sex marriage discrimatnJudd Proctor, a 65-year-old rint of Silver Sprg, Maryland, said he never thought he would live to see the day that gay marriage would be a nstutnal right.

Photograph: Eric Gay/APRandy Johnson, a platiff one of the ncurrent s brought om Kentucky before the urt wh his partner Pl Campn, said he still had goosebumps, hours after their 20-year-old son had texted them two words: “We won.

CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT

Kathie DeNobriga, the mayor of Atlanta suburb Pe Lake who married her long-term partner out of state last year as one of the few openly gay policians the Amerin south, lled the urt lg “a victory of love opposn to fear”. ”Legal same-sex weddgs were takg place for the first time on Friday across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennsee, even as the attorneys general Texas and Mississippi said marriag uld not take place attorney general Ken Paxton issued a long statement suggtg he would attempt to fight the legalisatn of gay marriage by assertg the “relig liberti” of clerks and officials. He subsequently clarified that his office “is certaly not standg the way of the supreme urt’s cisn” gay upl waed at the state val rerds office New Orleans to get their marriage licens.

”But the five jtic the majory argued that privg them of marriage equaly “serve[d] to disrpect and subordate” gay and lbian people.

IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE

”The natn’s hight tribunal last weighed marriage equaly 2012, wh challeng to California’s effective ban on same-sex marriag, known as Proposn 8, and a key provisn of the feral Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) jtic then led favor of marriage equaly proponents, but ducked the qutn of whether gay marriage was a nstutnal right. “It is hard for me to see now that any urt, anywhere, state or feral, uld possibly tolerate discrimatn agast gay people on any basis. Church of England prits will be permted to bls the civil marriag of same-sex upl a profound shift the church’s stance on homosexualy after a historic vote by s erng first blsgs for gay upl uld happen this summer.

GAY MARRIAGE BATE

”Nigel Pietroni, the chair of the Campaign for Equal Marriage the C of E, said the cisn “falls short of what we ultimately believe is the only oute for radil cln – equal marriage for all people”, but was “a small step forward” gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The offer of blsgs to same-sex partners is an sult. The archbishop of Canterbury will not personally bls same-sex civil marriag spe the Church of England’s historic change of Welby said he was “extremely joyful” at proposals to allow clergy to offer God’s blsg to same sex upl who have legally married, but said he would impose a “self-nyg ordance” for the sake of uny the global Anglin church that he, a divi at the top of the Church of England, Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York, said he would personally offer blsgs to same-sex upl and strongly suggted he did not believe gay sex was two archbishops were givg tails of the remendatn by bishops to end years of paful and bter bate wh the church wh a promise that matas s formal teachg that marriage is between a man and a woman, but perms clergy to bls same-sex civil marriag. Acknowledgg disagreements among the bishops on the issu, they said a letter to the church: “The differenc among you are also prent among … We are partnered, sgle, celibate, married, divorced, widowed, bereaved; heterosexual, gay, bisexual and same-sex attracted.

The ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful, and for this we repent. ”Asked whether he nsired gay sex was a s, he said: “I believe the great gift of sexual physil timacy [is] to be cherished, [and] belongs stable, lovg, mted relatnships. ”The bishops’ remendatns, which will be put to the church’’s lg body, the general synod, next month, “puts the C of E a new place – a good place”, said past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnWh his voice breakg wh emotn, he add: “I’m really pleased ’s changg for my gay iends.

Ireland has voted by a huge majory to legalise same-sex marriage, beg the first untry the world to do so by popular vote a move hailed as a social revolutn and weled around the 62% of the Irish Republic’s electorate voted favour of gay marriage. The huge Y vote marks another tone Ireland’s journey towards a more liberal, secular of an electorate of more than 3 ln, 1, 201, 607 backed gay marriage, while 734, 300 voters said No. The rult prompted a massive street party around the gay district of central Dubl close to the natnal unt centre.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Directly addrsg Ireland’s gay muny, taoiseach Enda Kenny said the rult meant that “a majory of people this republic have stood up for them [those the gay muny]”.

We are a genero, passnate, bold and joyful people who say y to cln, y to generosy, y to love, y to gay marriage. ”Health mister Leo Varadkar, who this year me out as the untry’s first openly gay mister, said the mpaign had been “almost like a social revolutn” social transformatn of the untry was on display the grounds of Dubl Castle, former seat of Brish le Ireland and the se of the natnal unt for a referendum that was unthkable jt two s ago – was only 1993 that homosexualy was crimalised.