The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry.
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- SUPREME COURT TO CI WHETHER SOME BS N REFE TO SERVE GAY CTOMERS
- SUPREME COURT TO CI WHETHER SOME BS N REFE TO SERVE GAY CTOMERS
- GAY MARRIAGE AND THE MERCE CLSE
- THE CONSTUTNAL ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
SUPREME COURT TO CI WHETHER SOME BS N REFE TO SERVE GAY CTOMERS
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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.
SUPREME COURT TO CI WHETHER SOME BS N REFE TO SERVE GAY CTOMERS
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.
GAY MARRIAGE AND THE MERCE CLSE
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. The Supreme Court said Tuday will ci whether certa bs wh relig objectns n refe to offer their servic for same-sex weddgs, a qutn has nsistently ducked sce s landmark gay marriage lg se volv a Colorado webse signer, Lorie Smh, who planned to expand her bs to serve upl gettg married.
THE CONSTUTNAL ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Send, the subject of this thread is not whether gay marriage is right or wrong morally; stead, 's the nstutnaly of gay marriage.
GAY MARRIAGE
Th, state nstutnal amendments fg the regnn of marriage om another state (for example, Montana's Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or regnized as a marriage this state - emphasis add by me) would be vlatg the merce clse of the feral Constutn, sce Congrs mt regulate the stat of the ntracts (gay marriag) when the signers move to a different state, rrect? Do the Uned Stat ernment have the nstutnal thory to legalize gay marriage?
[See a llectn of polil rtoons on gay marriage. ] If the legalizatn of gay marriage were acplished by statute, Congrs uld nceivably rely on s power to regulate merce. It is more likely that gay marriage would be mandated by the Court's own terpretatns of the 14th Amendment.