Feral Judge Strik Down Michigan Gay-Marriage Ban : The Two-Way : NPR

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• MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT HEARS MAJOR GAY RIGHTS SE
• IN MICHIGAN, GAY MARRIAGE LG SPARKS CELEBRATN, NUNCIATN
• MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE LG: 'THE GUARANTEE OF EQUAL PROTECTN MT PREVAIL'
• TEMPORARY STAY ISSUED MICHIGAN'S GAY MARRIAGE CASE
• LBIAN UPLE CHALLENG MICHIGAN'S GAY-MARRIAGE BAN URT
• FERAL JUDGE STRIK DOWN MICHIGAN GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT HEARS MAJOR GAY RIGHTS SE

Circu Court of Appeals Ccnati more time to nsir the state’s appeal of a cisn to overturn Michigan’s 10-year ban on gay marriage. Same-sex upl led up outsi urtho Michigan on Saturday to receive the first gay marriage licens issued by the state, after a U. District urt judge’s cisn on Friday to overturn the state’s 10-year ban on gay marriage.

(Rters) - Michigan mt regnize the legal marriag of about 300 same-sex upl who were wed the state a one-day perd last year after a feral urt stck down a ban on gay marriage and before the cisn was put on hold by a U. Supreme Court nsirs whether to take up s ncerng gay marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee, all part of the Ccnati-based 6th Circu Court of Appeals lg that upheld same-sex marriage bans 6th Circu cisn stands ntrast wh four other U. “The sooner the Uned Stat Supreme Court mak a cisn on this issue the better will be for Michigan and Ameri, ” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said a Wolfson, print of gay rights advot Freedom to Marry also urged the Supreme Court to take up same-sex marriage.

IN MICHIGAN, GAY MARRIAGE LG SPARKS CELEBRATN, NUNCIATN

– Michigan's attorney general on Wednday asked the state Supreme Court to overturn key cisns and extend the state's anti-discrimatn law to gays and who claim discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn have not been protected by Michigan's civil rights law bee the word “sex” the law has been terpreted only as a reference to Attorney General Dana Nsel, potg to landmark gay rights cisns feral urts, said 's time for the state Supreme Court to regnize that Michigan's anti-bias law means much 2019, Rouch World, an event center Sturgis, cled to host a same-sex weddg, sayg nflicted wh the owner's relig beliefs.

But Nsel, who is gay, said nyg protectns to lbians and gays is a “severe and ongog harm. Before beg attorney general, Nsel persuad a feral judge to overturn Michigan's ban on gay marriage, a se that ultimately land at the U.

MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE LG: 'THE GUARANTEE OF EQUAL PROTECTN MT PREVAIL'

”Kallman also noted that Rouch World's eedom to practice relign would be vlated if forced to host same-sex beg attorney general, Nsel persuad a feral judge to overturn Michigan’s ban on gay marriage, a cisn that was ultimately affirmed by the U. Better this stance, we thk, to allow change through the ctomary polil procs, which the people, gay and straight alike, bee the hero of their own stori by meetg each other not as adversari a urt system but as fellow cizens seekg to rolve a new social issue a fair-md way. The ernment should stay out of the private liv of adults, cludg gays and lbians.

Allowg lovg and mted gay and lbian upl to marry would tell our children and grandchildren that Michigan we believe treatg others as we would want to be treated ourselv.

TEMPORARY STAY ISSUED MICHIGAN'S GAY MARRIAGE CASE

Marriage matters to gay and lbian upl. Gay and lbian upl want to marry for siar reasons as anyone – to make a lifetime promise of mment and rponsibily to the person they love.

Denyg gay upl the eedom to marry weakens society by hurtg our muny, neighbors and fai. Allowg mted gay and lbian upl to get married do not change the meang of marriage. ↑ CNN, "Feral judge strik down Michigan's gay marriage ban, " accsed March 24, 2014.

↑ MLive, "Michigan c Supreme Court's affirmative actn lg gay marriage appeal, " May 7, 2014. 1 USA Today, "Gay marriage bans four stat upheld, Supreme Court review likely, " November 7, 2014.

LBIAN UPLE CHALLENG MICHIGAN'S GAY-MARRIAGE BAN URT

2 USA Today, "Gay-marriage advot plan new Mich. The morn gay rights movement the U.

This will be a very celebrated date the gay muny om here on out. "The lg sparked celebratn across Sgatuck, where s gay mayor, former Chigoan Bill Hs, was headg to an impromptu party Friday afternoon at the Hercul Bar & Grill.

FERAL JUDGE STRIK DOWN MICHIGAN GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

There are people who hate the gay people.

"Todd Christensen, a former longtime Kalamazoo police officer and Army veteran now bartendg at the Dun pool, said he was "screamg and cryg" when he heard the news and thought of his gay relativ, cludg his sister who liv San Francis but got married Massachetts two years ago. "Gays Ameri n fally be equal wh anybody else, and they n tly fall love wh the person that they love, and they n solidify that through the sancty of marriage.

The stay puts a judge's cisn to overturn a gay marriage ban on hold at least through Wednday. REBECCA COOK / RtersMarch 22, 2014, 9:07 PM UTCA feral appeals urt has spend gay marriag Michigan, puttg on hold a cisn by a lower urt judge who had stck down the state's same-sex marriage Ccnati urt's orr Saturday brgs a halt to same-sex weddgs Michigan, at least through Wednday. DETROIT (Rters) - Michigan’s ban on gay marriage perpetuat discrimatn and should be overturned, an attorney reprentg a lbian uple argued on Tuday at the start of the latt a seri of legal challeng to U.