Timele: Gay Marriage In Law, Pop Culture And The Courts : NPR

Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT: GAY MARRIAGE CASE VIO CAN BE MA PUBLIC
• GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS DIVI SUPREME COURT JTIC
• TIMELE: GAY MARRIAGE IN LAW, POP CULTURE AND THE COURTS

US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

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 CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

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.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. ”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights.

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

Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang.

”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor. Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs. “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.

GAY MARRIAGE

The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law. 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.

SUPREME COURT: GAY MARRIAGE CASE VIO CAN BE MA PUBLIC

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. The briefs filed support of gay marriage clud one by 370 small and large bs, one by 300 Republin officeholrs and activists, and one filed by a group of former high-rankg civilian Defense Department personnel.

The briefs filed opposn to gay marriage clu those by stat that have banned gay marriage, along wh briefs filed by var nservative policians, scholars, and anizatns. After yellg “If you support gay marriage you will burn hell” while the arguments were progrs, the man was dragged screamg out of the urtroom. Kennedy exprsed a reticence to overri a fn of marriage that “has been wh for lennia, ” yet suggted that gay upl uld have a “noble purpose” wishg to marry.

The New York Tim reported that Kennedy appeared “more emotnal and emphatic when he ma the se for same-sex marriage, ” givg “gay rights advot reason for optimism.

GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS DIVI SUPREME COURT JTIC

Roberts told lawyers argug on behalf of gay marriage proponents that “you’re not seekg to jo that stutn, you’re seekg to change what the stutn is. As the State self mak marriage all the more prec by the signifince attach to , excln om that stat has the effect of teachg that gays and lbians are unequal important rpects.

Marriage did not e about as a rult of a polil movement, disvery, disease, war, relig doctre, or any other movg force of world history—and certaly not as a rult of a prehistoric cisn to exclu gays and lbians. 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”.

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

“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.