Ky. orred to regnize out-of-state gay marriag

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY
• SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• IN KENTUCKY, FIGHT FOR A GAY MARRIAGE CERTIFITE GO TO THE COURTS
• KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG
• KY. ORRED TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE GAY MARRIAG
• KENTUCKY JUDGE TURNS GAY MARRIAGE TI THE SOUTH
• COURT REJECTS KENTUCKY'S ATTEMPT TO SHIRK LEGAL FE KIM DAVIS GAY MARRIAGE SE
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY

PFLAG: Short for Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays, PFLAG is an excellent rource wh chapters natnwi. Ernto Srsone, a retired Lexgton judge and Kentucky’s first openly gay legislator, said that even though Thomas’ suggtn that the urt “rensir” s like Obergefell was rebuffed, ’s “appropriate to be ncerned.

SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE

”But when to gay rights, that ncern is limed to the right to marry, acrdg to Srsone. Another gay rights bill sponsored by Republins, Senate Bill 137, which would have banned gay nversn therapy, was never heard the Senate Health & Welfare Salaman, a nstutnal law profsor at the Universy of Kentucky College of Law, said that the future of same-sex marriage is likely more solid than some might thk.

Gay Marriage Regnized In Kentucky, For NowKentucky, for the moment, regniz gay marriage. — A Kentucky unty clerk who has bee a symbol of relig opposn to same-sex marriage was jailed Thursday after fyg a feral urt orr to issue licens to gay clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, Ky., was orred taed for ntempt of urt and later rejected a proposal to allow her puti to procs same-sex marriage licens that uld have prompted her release.

GAY MARRIAGE

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ViotranscripttranscriptProtters Outsi Kentucky CourthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to — COURTESY WHAS11 NEWS, EMBARGO LOUISVILLE. Var of gay marriage supporters and monstrators outsi Kentucky urthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to jail. Davis jailed, the agreements by her puty clerks left gay and straight upl poised to receive marriage licens the unty for the first time months.

The rabow flag, a symbol of the gay rights movement, was on display along wh signs that rried msag like “Sodomy is s. Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg om Washgton. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Clerk Choos Jail Over Deal on Gay Unns.

IN KENTUCKY, FIGHT FOR A GAY MARRIAGE CERTIFITE GO TO THE COURTS

LGBTQ mpaigners and legal experts have told of their fears and outrage on Monday after two US supreme urt jtic issued an “appallg” attack on the 2015 landmark cisn enablg same-sex upl to me as the urt cled to hear an appeal the se of former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed 2015 after refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl, after gay marriage beme legal.

KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG

”Former Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg, who was the first openly gay printial ndidate, and is married to hband Chasten Buttigieg, also rpond to the jtic, tweetg: “So much for precent and judicial rtrat. 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.

KY. ORRED TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE GAY MARRIAG

” 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.

KENTUCKY JUDGE TURNS GAY MARRIAGE TI THE SOUTH

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.

COURT REJECTS KENTUCKY'S ATTEMPT TO SHIRK LEGAL FE KIM DAVIS GAY MARRIAGE SE

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. 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.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage. 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.

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. Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event. 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. Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people?