If the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law — even a provisn the state Constutn — banng same-sex ...
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- ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI ‘TRIGGER LAW’ TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS SUPREME COURT LIBERAT: GAY MARRIAGE
- LEGAL FIGHT CONTU OVER MISSISSIPPI GAY-MARRIAGE LAW
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI ‘TRIGGER LAW’ TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS SUPREME COURT LIBERAT: GAY MARRIAGE
If the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law banng them. * mississippi gay marriage trigger law *
Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law — even a provisn the state Constutn — banng same-sex marriage.
Seem farfetched that gay marriage uld be repealed?
The Supreme Court approved gay marriage by a slim 5-4 marg the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodg se, wh nservative jtic argug that the right to gay marriage was not the U.
LEGAL FIGHT CONTU OVER MISSISSIPPI GAY-MARRIAGE LAW
The state approved placg the ban on gay marriage the Mississippi Constutn 2004. No unty voted agast the provisn placg a ban on gay marriage the state Constutn.
And to highlight what a hot-button issue gay marriage remas Mississippi, legislators 2016 passed a bill that allows public officials to opt out of providg servic to same-sex upl, such as issug a marriage license, and allows private bs not to provi servic to gay upl. That legislatn, which still ensur the state will issue a marriage license to a gay uple even if a clerk opts out of providg the service, has not been overturned by the feral urts.
In addn, pollg 2017 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute found only three stat where a majory or pluraly opposed gay marriage: Mississippi, Alabama and Wt Virgia.