Mariage gay: ce que Jean-Marc Ayrlt en pensa en 2004

Contents:

• MARIAGE GAY: CE QUE JEAN-MARC AYRLT EN PENSA EN 2004
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
• GAY MARRIAGE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
• BH BACKS BAN CONSTUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE

MARIAGE GAY: CE QUE JEAN-MARC AYRLT EN PENSA EN 2004

L'ecclésiastique fa référence à un article Libératn datant du 18 mai 2004, relayant s propos Jean-Marc Ayrlt, alors présint du groupe socialiste à l'Assemblée natnale, qui prena alors s distanc avec l'ouverture du mariage x upl homosexuels prônée notamment par François Hollan et Domique Strss-Kahn. "To have the hight urt the state affirm your right to be a fay was wonrful, and jt gave you urage, " said Marcia Hams, who mped out ont of Cambridge Cy Hall on Sunday wh her bri-to-be, San Shepherd, to be the first le to apply for a marriage ci and towns the Bay State, cludg Cambridge, cid to open their licensg offic Sunday night so they uld beg handg out same-sex marriage applitns after midnight, when they bee the stroke of midnight, thoands of people broke to cheers as cy clerks Cambridge issued the first marriage license applitns to to gay and lbian and Shepherd were the first uple to fill out the crowd around Cambridge Cy Hall began throwg rice and sgg "The Star-Spangled Banner" as upl streamed through the ont door and to the clerk's male uple rried a sign readg "49 years together" wh pictur of their children and grandchildren on the the applitns are hand, upl will eher have to wa three days, or seek a waiver of the wag perd om a judge, before they n get a license to marry. The cisn on whether to grant a waiver is up to each dividual same-sex marriag Monday will mark a tone the gay rights movement, the culmatn of more than a of legal challeng across the untry to laws limg marriage to upl of the oppose social nservativ, too, have been galvanized by the specter of same-sex marriag, anizg support of a feral nstutnal amendment outlawg the practice, as well as amendments a number of stat that would stop other urts om followg Massachetts' issue has also bee fodr for the printial race.

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

But while Bh favors amendg the Constutn, Kerry is opposed and says he supports civil unns for gay and lbian further fuel to the ntroversy is the fact that the natn's first same-sex marriag will take place Kerry's home show that a majory of Amerins oppose lettg gay and lbian upl legally marry.

It layed the effective date of the cisn until Monday, to give the Legislature the opportuny to change the Legislature stead passed a nstutnal amendment that would overturn the urt's cisn, prohibg same-sex marriag but allowg civil unns for gay and lbian upl. Premier mariage unissant ux homm, il fut célébré par le député-maire Vert Noël Mamère en la mairie Bègl (Giron), près dix avant que la loi ne légalise l unns même sexe, et t s effets importants sur la polisatn s du mariage et l’homoparentalé en France. Le philosophe Didier Eribon, tr Réflexns sur la qutn gay, et le juriste Daniel Borrillo, spécialiste s discrimatns et s dros LGBT, vlent aller pl lo, nvac puis plirs anné déjà qu’on ne pourra lutter efficement ntre l discrimatns, l’homophobie et la transphobie tant que l gays, l lbienn et l trans n’ront pas l mêm dros que l personn hétérosexuell.

WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY

Dans un « Manifte pour l’égalé s dros » publié le 17 mars 2004 dans Le Mon, ils réclament, avec le soutien personnalés issu s mons tellectuel, artistique et polique, l’accès s upl homosexuels mariage et à l’adoptn, et celui s lbienn et s femm célibatair à la procréatn médilement assistée. Ils appellent l mair à célébrer s unns entre personn du même sexe à la favr d’une terprétatn libérale du civil, arguant que celui-ci ne déf pas le mariage me l’unn d’un homme et d’une femme; ils appellent ssi l parlementair à changer la loi et l jug à terpréter l’terdictn du mariage homosexuel me une vlatn du prcipe nstutnnel d’égalé s dros.

À l’verse, la qutn l’homoparentalé nnaissa une montée en puissance grâce travail pédagogie et visibilisatn s fal homoparental mené par l’Associatn s parents et futurs parents gays et lbiens (APGL), asi qu’à la favr mobilisatns dans l arèn jtice dont Carole Méry a été l’une s figur proue. Even as nservativ fight for relig-liberty exemptns om the new norms around same-sex marriage, such as those the Supreme Court is nsirg a challenge om a Catholic social-servic agency that ref to place foster children gay fai, they’ve effectively nced feat the broar war over the earlier civil rights projects to which the qut for marriage equaly was often pared — notably, for women’s sufage and racial segregatn — not only took much longer to reach their goals but also appeared to leave a ridue of unrolved nflict even after the nstutnal issu were settled. In pretrial statements, the state attorney general’s office dned a range of potential ratnal: that Hawaii thori had an tert ensurg that the state’s legal relatnships were regnized other jurisdictns; that the state had an tert furtherg procreatn wh marriage; that heterosexual marriag were better for children; that the islands’ tourist enomy uld suffer if Hawaii beme Lake Tahoe for gay and lbian none of the ratnal managed to persua judg — eher Hawaii or subsequent succsful challeng to marriage laws Vermont, Massachetts, Connecticut, California and Iowa.

GAY MARRIAGE

” But afterward, even the most cynil observers of events Massachetts and the stat that followed s lead uld not pot to any societal y that gay marriage both the legal and polil spher, opponents were forced to shrk the circle of those expected to feel direct harm om lettg gay men and lbians marry. Even if simple exposure to gay fai ed harm to children (and gay-marriage opponents uld never mter anythg beyond njecture to support that claim), they did not brg much to the fight agast same-sex marriage as voters, donors or the same time, the aln of those vted legalizg same-sex marriage not only broaned, but their vtment the oute epened. This clud not jt gay upl who wanted to marry — drawn to the unique material benefs and symbolic power the stutn offered — but their fai and muni who saw marriage as a source of stabily, and even employers who wanted to synchronize their benefs wh the law and standardize them across state l.

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.

” 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. 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.

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

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.

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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

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.

BH BACKS BAN CONSTUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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. Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

"Rabbis belongg to the biggt and most liberal branch of Judaism the Uned Stat have voted to regnise the partnerships of gay and lbian Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanctn relig ceremoni for same-sex Print of the Conference, Rabbi Charl Kroloff, said that gay and lbian people served the regnn and rpect due to people created the image of God. "Before the lg [Supreme Court lg that laws makg gay sex a crime were unnstutnal], supporters the Hoe [US Hoe of Reprentativ] of a nstutnal amendment that would more formally rtrict marriage to the unn of a man and a woman were havg trouble attractg sponsors. 'In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ' he wrote, 'the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl.