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• GAY MARRIAG ON THE RISE GOA
• GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
• MARRIAGE: A GAY AFFAIR?
• GAY PLAC AND PEOPLE VISG GOA! JAN 13. - GOA FOM
• GAY MARRIAG ON THE RISE

GAY MARRIAG ON THE RISE GOA

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Last Updated: Augt 27, 2006, 13:55 ISTAs the number of gays enterg to wedlock Goa ris, NGOs are mandg legal ver for such The number of gays enterg to wedlock Goa is on the rise and groups workg for homosexual rights are mandg legal ver for such marriag.

"In the last uple of years Goa, we got 25 such gay upl married. They don't have social acceptance but the number of gay marriag is risg, " said Vishant Chodankar of the Humsafar tst Goa. The NGO is the only one workg for gay rights Goa.

It was rerd as the first gay marriage India.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

Chodankar, who is himself married to a male partner, feels loyalty gay marriag is much more than nventnal marriag. Whout legaly and social acceptance, many gay partners meet durg the day and live wh their parents.

He says the NGO is worried about high sceptibily to sexually-transmted diseas among gays. "Every year, we meet around 1, 000 to 1, 500 new gay upl Goa self.

MARRIAGE: A GAY AFFAIR?

Referrg to the mand for legalisg gay marriag, he said, "Gay upl cut across the age group of 18 to 50 years.

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.

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.

GAY PLAC AND PEOPLE VISG GOA! JAN 13. - GOA FOM

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. 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.

GAY MARRIAG ON THE RISE

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.