At First Of Gay-Marriage Cas, Skepticism About Whether Court Should Weigh In : The Two-Way : NPR

Contents:

• TIMELE: GAY MARRIAGE IN LAW, POP CULTURE AND THE COURTS
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• AT FIRST OF GAY-MARRIAGE CAS, SKEPTICISM ABOUT WHETHER COURT SHOULD WEIGH IN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

TIMELE: GAY MARRIAGE IN LAW, POP CULTURE AND THE COURTS

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. 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.

In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs. Bh that would outlaw same-sex marriag the whole untry, ten typilly nservative tat along wh Oregon enacted state-level bans on gay marriag.

In 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman to be unnstutnal, 2013, Uned Stat v. By 2015 (the year Obergefell was cid) thirty-six stat already issued marriage licens to same-sex upl and more than 20 unti around the world had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands 2000. Judge Heyburn held that “homosexual persons nstute a quasi-spect class, ” and clared that Kentucky’s law banng same-sex marriag vlat the Equal Protectn Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uned Stat Constutn.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign.

AT FIRST OF GAY-MARRIAGE CAS, SKEPTICISM ABOUT WHETHER COURT SHOULD WEIGH IN

In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze. The magaze, which is nsired by One Archiv Foundatn to be Ameri’s first wily-distributed magaze for gay rears, clud articl, edorials, short stori and other ntent.

GAY MARRIAGE

In s cisn, the Supreme Court tossed out a lower urt’s lg, and tablished that material aimed at a gay dience was not herently obscene. “The urt went out of s way to make clear that gay people uld be crimalized unr the provisns, and there was nothg wrong wh that.

Many people who feared the then-myster disease were “hyper-foced” on the ia that gay men were promiscuo and saw HIV-posive people as “sort of gettg what they served, ” says Maril. The se revolved around an amendment to a Colorado law, which banned ci om passg anti-discrimatn laws that would protect gay and bisexual people.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

“Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights. In 1990, the Boy Suts of Ameri cid to expel Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster and Eagle Sut, after he was intified a newspaper as a lear of Rutgers Universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance. “The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr.

“It wasn’t until 2013 that the group cid to end s ban on gay children as members, but still ntued s ban on gay adult lears, ” Dale wrote a 2015 opn piece TIME. “This iative was wrong many ways: It was great that they weren’t excludg young members, but was wrong to tell someone that you n be gay when you’re a child, but you’re immoral as an adult.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

In a 7-2 cisn, the Supreme Court found for Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who had refed to make a gay uple a weddg ke on relig grounds. Supreme Court has led on two s alg wh gay marriage, here's a look at how the bate has touched Amerin life over the past four s:. Supreme Court dismiss a challenge of a lg om Mnota that gay upl have no nstutnal right to marry, sayg the appeal fails to raise a "substantial feral qutn.

Doris Dennis, a volunteer handg out lerature for the Save Our Children group head by Ana Bryant, gets to a bate wh Alan Rockway, a volunteer handg out lerature for a gay rights group, at a shoppg center Miami 1977. Ana Bryant lnch a mpaign agast expandg gay rights, lled Save Our Children, wh the slogan "Homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec. 1993 The Hawaii Supreme Court l a ban on gay marriage may vlate s nstutn, but is stripped of jurisdictn over the matter by a nstutnal amendment five years later.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

1998 After an Alaska Superr Court judge l same-sex upl have a right to marry the state, voters approve a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage.

2006 New Jersey's Supreme Court l gay upl are entled to the same rights as heterosexual upl; the Legislature opts to legalize civil unns. Richie Beanan of Los Angel puts a sign on a b support of California's Proposn 8 gay marriage ban after a rally Sacramento October 2008.

TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

California's Supreme Court overturns that state's gay marriage ban May, legalizg same-sex marriage, but voters approve a nstutnal amendment November to end gay marriage. Supreme Court strik down the Defense of Marriage Act as unnstutnal, meang sr of feral benefs will now be available to legally married gay upl. The urt also l that supporters of California's same-sex marriage ban did not have the legal right to fend urt, which uld clear the way for gay marriage to rume that state.

Hodg over whether or not gay marriage is a right guaranteed by the US Constutn, and whether or not gay marriag performed stat where has been legalized mt be regnized stat which ban the practice. On June 26, 2015, the Court led 5-4 that gay marriage is a nstutnal right, meang that all 50 stat mt allow and that all existg bans are valid. 2014, th endg a n of succs for the gay marriage movement durg which more than 40 state and feral urts overturned same-sex marriage bans.