‘It is so orred.’ Supreme Court Jtic on gay marriage cisn | PBS NewsHour

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• US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• 2 JTIC SLAM URT'S 2015 CISN GAY MARRIAGE SE
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE

In a landmark opn, a divid Supreme Court on Friday led that same-sex upl n marry natnwi, tablishg a new civil right and handg gay rights advot a historic victory. Nearly 46 years to the day after a rt at New York’s Stonewall Inn hered the morn gay rights movement, the cisn uld settle one of the major civil rights fights of this era.

2 JTIC SLAM URT'S 2015 CISN GAY MARRIAGE SE

Kennedy has wrten the opn signifint gay rights s and when he uttered the key sentence that same-sex upl should be able to exercise the right to marry all stat, people the Court’s public gallery broke to s and some wiped tears om their ey.

Hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters flood the plaza and siwalk ont of the Court to celebrate the lg, proudly wavg rabow flags and banners wh the Human Rights Campaign’s equal sign, which have e to reprent the gay rights movement.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

And as gay rights groups have seen gay marriage bans fall rapidly recent years, wh the number of stat allowg gay marriage swellg most recently to 37 – that is, until this lg. Attorney John Bursch, servg as Michigan’s Special Assistant Attorney General, fend four stat’ bans on gay marriage before the Court, argug that the se was not about how to fe marriage, but rather about who gets to ci the qutn. “It is simply untenable – untenable – to suggt that they n be nied the right of equal participatn an stutn of marriage, or that they n be required to wa until the majory cis that is ready to treat gay and lbian people as equals.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

The pair had married New York 2011, but Dekoe’s posn the Army took the uple to Tennsee, which banned gay marriage and refed to regnize gay marriag performed other stat.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The urt uld effectively make gay marriage legal across the untryThe US Supreme Court will le this year on whether gay upl have a right to marry across all jtic said they would hear a bed se about marriage bans four a supreme urt lg on the s uld fully legalise gay marriage the urt prevly stck down a US law preventg feral regnn of marriag stat allowg same-sex unns. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Gay marriage supporters cheered the June 2013 lg that stck down a law limg regnn of the unnsIn November, a US appeals urt overturned lgs strikg down marriage bans those four stat, the first appeals urt to do so sce the Supreme Court's ial gay marriage US high urt prevly cled to tervene s that had ma to the appeals urt level, effectively allowg marriag to go two-and-a-half hours of arguments, the jtic will nsir two related qutns - whether the US nstutn requir stat to issue marriage licenc to gay and lbian upl and whether stat mt regnise such marriag performed other se will be argued April and a cisn is expected by late on this story.

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

”Wh Gsburg’s ath and the retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy 2018, only three members of the majory the gay marriage se rema: Jtic Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Barrett’s nfirmatn would cement a 6-3 nservative majory on the urt, and she has pared her approach to the law generally to that of her mentor, Jtice Anton Slia, one of the dissenters the gay marriage se. Reversg the urt’s cisn the gay marriage se would seem a tall orr, but Thomas’ statement unrsred liberals’ fears that the urt uld roll back some of their harst-fought s the jtic spent about two and a half hours discsg Monday, however, were far ls proment: a water dispute between Texas and New Mexi and a se volvg a provisn of the Delaware nstutn that keeps the number of state judg affiliated wh the two major polil parti fairly even. “The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.

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.