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• US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI
• GAY MARRIAGE
• U.S. SENATE LIKELY TO LAY BILL ON GAY MARRIAGE UNTIL SEPTEMBER
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL NATNWI?
• GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT

US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.

Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.

“[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.

GAY MARRIAGE

The Rpect for Marriage Act, as is lled, won Senate approval last legislatn won the support of LGBT advot as well as a number of relig anizatns and enti cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, though many Amerin relig nservativ still oppose gay marriage as unter to biblil is narrowly wrten to act as a limed backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, known as Obergefell v.

Media ptn, The morng gay marriage me to the USThe US Supreme Court has led that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the Uned means the 14 stat wh bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them.

Media ptn, Print Obama: "This lg will strengthen all our muni"However, Christian nservativ nmned the Arkansas ernor and printial ndidate Mike Huckabee lled "an out-of-ntrol act of unnstutnal, judicial tyranny" Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for an anti-gay marriage advocy group, said the cisn "ignored the voic of thoands of Amerins" Abbott, the ernor of Texas, a state where marriag licenc will now be issued to same-sex upl, said the jtic "have imposed on the entire untry their personal views on an issue that the Constutn and the Court's prev cisns rerve to the people of the stat" ptn, Emotn of wners and losers outsi Supreme CourtAt the scene - Pl Blake, BBC NewsLoud cheers epted outsi the urt after the lg was announced, and there were tears, hugs, and cheers of "USA USA USA! A sea of rabow flags overwhelmed the few anti-gay marriage activists who reacted disbelief, and the monstratn seemed to turn to a street party.

U.S. SENATE LIKELY TO LAY BILL ON GAY MARRIAGE UNTIL SEPTEMBER

"It's my hope that gay marriage will soon be a thg of the past, and om this day forward will simply be 'marriage, '" an emotnal Mr Obergefell said outsi the source, APImage ptn, Coupl some parts of Texas were able to get marriedStat affected: Alabama, Arkansas, Geia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, most of Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oh, South Dakota, Tennsee and first state to allow same-sex marriage was Massachetts, which granted the right 2004. In recent years, a wave of legal lgs and a dramatic shift public opn have expand gay marriage the US.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL NATNWI?

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U.

Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry.

HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT

2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage. Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.

Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event. For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.