LGBT Rights Florida, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- WHAT IS THE FLORIDA LAW REGARDG GAY MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?
- RON DESANTIS SIGNALS HE’D BE OPEN TO MAKG FLORIDA AN ANTI-GAY HELLHOLETHE REPUBLIN ERNOR OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT OF WHAT’S BEEN DUBBED THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS.BY BS LEVFEBARY 8, 2022FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS AT THE OPENG OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE AT THE HYATT REGENCY ON FEBARY 26, 2021 ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FUNNY THG ABOUT REPUBLINS IS THAT SPE CLAIMG TO BE THE PARTY OF “PERSONAL EEDOM,” THE LAST YEAR ALONE, THEY HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT AMERINS OM: READG CERTA BOOKS, TEACHG ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, MAKG CISNS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODI, AND, THE SE OF SOME GROUPS, VOTG MOCRATIC ELECTNS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THIS EVINCE AND NCLU THAT REPUBLINS ARE MASSIVE HYPOCR—AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT! SO WHILE EPLY PRSG, ’S NO WAY SURPRISG THAT FLORIDA NSERVATIV WANT TO BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, AND THAT FLORIDA’S ERNOR, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE HIS EYE ON THE WHE HOE 2024, HAS SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE IATIVE.ON MONDAY, RON DESANTIS OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE IMPLEMENTATN OF “PROCR TO RERCE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PARENTS TO MAKE CISNS REGARDG THE UPBRGG AND NTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN,” BAN TEACHERS OM ENURAGG NVERSATNS ABOUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS THE CLASSROOM THAT ARE “NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS,” AND ALLOW PARENTS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IF THEY THK THEIR “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” AS PARENTS HAS BEEN VLATED. ASKED ABOUT THE BILL, DESANTIS SISTED IS “ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO TALK WH STUNTS ABOUT GENR INTY, CLAIMG TO HAVE HEARD EXAMPL OF CHILDREN BEG TOLD, “DON’T WORRY, DON’T PICK YOUR GENR YET,” AND WHERE TEACHERS ARE “HIDG” LSONS OM PARENTS.“SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TEACHG KIDS TO READ, TO WRE,” DESANTIS SAID, PLETELY IGNORG THE EMOTNAL VELOPMENT THAT ALSO OCCURS DURG KIDS’ FORMATIVE YEARS. “THEY NEED TO TEACH THEM SCIENCE, HISTORY. WE NEED MORE CIVICS AND UNRSTANDG OF THE U.S. CONSTUTN, WHAT MAK OUR UNTRY UNIQUE, ALL THOSE BASIC STUFF.… THE LARGER ISSUE WH ALL OF THIS IS PARENTS MT HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN TO WHAT’S GOG ON THEIR SCHOOLS.” WHILE HE DID NOT OUTRIGHT SAY HE WOULD SIGN THE BILL TO LAW, AS NBC NEWS NOT, “ WAS THE FIRST TIME THE REPUBLIN ERNOR SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE SCE WAS PROPOSED BY THE STATE’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV LAST MONTH.” WHICH IS CREDIBLY WORRISOME.OPPONENTS OF THE BILL—WHICH CLU THE WHE HOE—HAVE WARNED WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ TEACHERS AND STUNTS. “MAKE NO MISTAKE—THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ACTN. ACROSS THE UNTRY, WE’RE SEEG REPUBLIN LEARS TAKE ACTNS TO REGULATE WHAT STUNTS N OR NNOT READ, WHAT THEY N OR NNOT LEARN, AND MOST TROUBLG, WHO THEY N OR NNOT BE,” A SPOKPERSON FOR THE WHE HOE SAID A STATEMENT. “THIS IS POLICS AT S WORSE, CYNILLY G OUR STUNTS AS PAWNS POLIL WARFARE.”SEIZG ON THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS” LE TROTTED OUT BY DESANTIS AND OTHER REPUBLINS, SOUTH FLORIDA RINT JENNIFER SOLOMAN, WHO HAS LGBTQ+ CHILDREN, MENTED TO NBC NEWS: “PARENTAL RIGHTS? WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS? ONLY PARENTAL RIGHTS IF YOU’RE RAISG A CHILD ACRDG TO DESANTIS? DESANTIS TRI TO PAT THIS PICTURE THAT EVERY FAY IS THIS 1950S MOM AND DAD WH TWO KIDS AND A T AND DOG. THAT IS NOT WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE; THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNTRY LOOKS LIKE.” WHILE SOLOMAN TOLD NBC THAT SHE IS NOT PERSONALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE BILL ON HER CHILDREN, BEE THEY LIVE A PART OF THE STATE THAT IS “RELATIVELY ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE,” SHE FEARS FOR THOSE LIVG OTHER MUNI. “THERE ULD BE A FAY JT LIKE ME THAT IS GOG TO HAVE TO GO BACK THE CLOSET,” SHE SAID. “THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE TO TELL THEIR CHILD, ‘I’M SORRY, YOU N DRS THE WAY YOU WANT TO AT HOME, BUT YOU HAVE NO PROTECTNS AT SCHOOL, AND SO YOU N’T BE YOUR THENTIC SELF ALL OF THE TIME.’ THAT’S VERY DAMAGG TO A CHILD.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.WANT TO HEAR THE 10 SRIT WORDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?OKAY, THEY ARE: “THE BABYSTER NCELED, BUT STEPHEN MILLER IS WATCHG OUR KIDS.” THE NEXT 10 SRIT? “PETER THIEL TO LEAVE META BOARD TO PURSUE TMP AGENDA.” PER BLOOMBERG:PETER THIEL, THE TECH VTOR AND NSERVATIVE PROVOTR WHO HAS ADVISED MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR NEARLY TWO S AT FACEBOOK PARENT META PLATFORMS INC., WILL STEP DOWN OM THE PANY’S BOARD AFTER META’S ANNUAL SHAREHOLR MEETG MAY. THIEL, 54, WHO BEME A DIRECTOR 2005 AFTER AN EARLY VTMENT FACEBOOK, PLANS TO CREASE HIS POLIL SUPPORT OF FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP’S AGENDA DURG THE 2022 ELECTN AND DON’T WANT HIS POLIL ACTIVI TO BE A DISTRACTN FOR FACEBOOK, ACRDG TO A PERSON CLOSE TO THIEL. THIEL HELPED ELECT TMP PRINT 2016 BY DONATG MONEY AND SPEAKG ON HIS BEHALF AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN. WHEN TMP BEME PRINT, THIEL WORKED ON HIS TRANSN TEAM WHILE NOMATG LLEAGU TO FILL ERNMENT POSNS…. THIEL HAS NTUED TO SUPPORT TMP WHILE MEETG WH MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY AND MEMBERS OF THE FAR-RIGHT RECENT YEARS.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIEL APPARENTLY MIXED TWO PASSNS BY ADVISG ZUCKERBERG “ON POLIL ISSU,” WHICH REPORTEDLY CLUD “ENURAGG THE CEO NOT TO FACT-CHECK POLIL ADVERTISEMENTS THE N-UP TO THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN, A MOVE THAT MANY BELIEVE BENEFED TMP,” BLOOMBERG NOTED. WHILE MANY FACEBOOK EMPLOYE WERE EPLY UNHAPPY ABOUT THIEL’S 2016 SUPPORT OF TMP, ZUCKERBERG FEND HIS LONGTIME PAL, SAYG AN TERNAL MSAGE: “WE N’T CREATE A CULTURE THAT SAYS R ABOUT DIVERSY AND THEN EXCLUS ALMOST HALF THE UNTRY BEE THEY BACK A POLIL NDIDATE.“ AND NOW, HERE WE ARE!NOTHG TO SEE HERE, JT THE SUPREME COURT’S ULTRANSERVATIV DOG THEIR PART TO ANNIHILATE VOTG RIGHTSBY 2024, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY’LL LET VOTE WILL BE HALF A DOZEN WHE GUYS WHO TRAVEL TO MCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE AND SIGN A NTRACT PLEDGG TO VOTE FOR REPUBLINS. PER NBC NEWS:IN A 5–4 VOTE, THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY MONDAY FOR ALABAMA TO E S NEW NGRSNAL DISTRICT MAP EVEN THOUGH A LOWER URT SAID VLATED THE VOTG RIGHTS ACT BY NYG BLACK VOTERS A NEW DISTRICT. THE URT GRANTED A REQUT OM ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO PUT A HOLD ON THE LOWER URT LG. THE SE—THE FIRST TO REACH THE SUPREME COURT VOLVG THE REDRAWG OF POLIL BOUNDARI WH 2020 CENS RULTS—ULD AFFECT REDISTRICTG OTHER STAT THAT GAED MORY POPULATNS. THE SUPREME COURT ALSO SAID WOULD HEAR ALABAMA’S CHALLENGE TO THE LOWER URT LG THAT CLARED THE MAPS VOID. THAT APPEAL IS NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD UNTIL THE URT’S NEW TERM BEGS THE FALL. AS A PRACTIL MATTER, THE URT’S ACTN ALLOWS ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO E THEIR MAP FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTNS.AS SLATE’S MARK JOSEPH STERN NOT, YOU N TELL THE LG IS REALLY, REALLY BAD BY THE FACT THAT CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS, “AN ARCHECT OF THE JUDICIAL ATTACK ON VOTG RIGHTS,” CHOSE TO DISSENT ALONG WH THE URT’S THREE LIBERALS, WHICH WAS SADLY NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE FIVE OTHER JTIC OM UPHOLDG ALABAMA’S “EGREG RACIAL GERRYMANR.” AS STERN WR:OVER THE LAST , THE SUPREME COURT HAS BULLDOZED SEVERAL KEY PROVISNS OF THE VRA. BUT UNTIL NOW, HAD NOT YET REPEALED THE LAW’S PROTECTNS AGAST THE DILUTN OF VOT ST BY RACIAL MORI. THIS SHIELD, NTAED SECTN 2 AND CLARIFIED BY 1986’S THORNBURG V. GGL, REQUIR A THREE-JUDGE DISTRICT URT TO TERME WHETHER A REDISTRICTG PLAN RV UP MORY MUNI TO PREVENT THEM OM ELECTG THE NDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. ALTHOUGH THE GGL TT N BE DIFFICULT TO APPLY, THE RELEVANT FACTORS HERE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD: DUE TO RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTG THE STATE, BLACK ALABAMIANS NNOT ELECT THEIR PREFERRED REPRENTATIV UNLS THEY NSTUTE A MAJORY OF THEIR DISTRICT. ALABAMA REPUBLINS UNRSTAND THIS FACT, AND IS WHY THEIR NEW NGRSNAL MAP THLSLY DILUT BLACK VOT. THE PLAN PACKS A HUGE NUMBER OF BLACK VOTERS TO A SGLE, SPRAWLG DISTRICT THAT STRETCH OM BIRMGHAM TO MONTGOMERY, CLUDG AS MANY NONWHE RINTS AS POSSIBLE. THE FEW REMAG VOTERS OF LOR ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SIX MAJORY-WHE DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF ELECTG THEIR FAVORED NDIDATE. AS A RULT, WHILE BLACK AMERINS MAKE UP 27% OF THE STATE’S POPULATN, THEY NTROL JT 14% OF S NGRSNAL LEGATN.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHIF THAT STRIK YOU AS WILDLY MSED UP AND HUGELY EGREG, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. IN HIS DISSENT, ROBERTS WROTE THAT THE LOWER URT, WHICH LLED BULLSH ON THE NEW MAP, HAD “PROPERLY APPLIED EXISTG LAW AN EXTENSIVE OPN WH NO APPARENT ERRORS FOR OUR RRECTN,” WHILE JTICE ELENA KAGAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “TODAY’S CISN IS ONE MORE A DISNCERTGLY LONG LE OF S WHICH THIS COURT S SHADOW DOCKET TO SIGNAL OR MAKE CHANG THE LAW, WHOUT ANYTHG APPROACHG FULL BRIEFG AND ARGUMENT.… [THIS] DO A DISSERVICE TO THE DISTRICT COURT, WHICH METICULOLY APPLIED THIS COURT’S LONGSTANDG VOTG-RIGHTS PRECENT. AND MOST OF ALL, DO A DISSERVICE TO BLACK ALABAMIANS WHO UNR THAT PRECENT HAVE HAD THEIR ELECTORAL POWER DIMISHED— VLATN OF A LAW THIS COURT ONCE KNEW TO BUTTRS ALL OF AMERIN MOCRACY.”KEV MCCARTHY WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS HIS PARTY’S REBRAND OF JANUARY 6 AS A BETIFUL DAY HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR WH PARTY HATS AND RG DGSTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!FBI ARRTS TMP SUPPORTER WHO STORMED CAPOL WHILE ON BAIL FOR ATTEMPTED MURR (NBC NEWS)EUROPE RAMPS UP UKRAE DIPLOMACY AMID “EXTREME TENSN” (WASHGTON POST)AS PELOTON FIR OVER 2,800 EMPLOYE, ’S GIVG THEM A EE ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTN ON THE WAY OUT (INSIR)HOW JOE MANCH ED POLICS TO PROTECT HIS FAY AL PANY (POLI)TOP WHE HOE SCIENTIST RIGNS AFTER REVIEW FDS HE MEANED STAFF (WASHGTON POST)GOLDMAN SACHS’S WORK-FROM-OFFICE POLICY IS THE ABERRATN NOW (BLOOMBERG)FEDS ARRT MARRIED UPLE, SEIZE $3.6 BILLN HACKED B FUNDS (WASHGTON POST)FLORIDA HOME TO BE SOLD NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AL (AP)NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT MAFIA ACUNTANTS ARE REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS (BOG BOG)ZOO HIR MARV GAYE IMPERSONATOR TO GET MONKEYS THE MOOD (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — INSI JERRY FALWELL JR.’S UNLIKELY RISE AND PRECIPO FALL AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY— ERIC ADAMS PULLS CRYPTO-PAYCHECK STUNT HOURS BEFORE B CRASH— DAVE CHAPPELLE AND “THE BLACK ASS LIE” THAT KEEPS US DOWN— TMP’S JANUARY 6 COVER-UP IS UNRAVELG FAST— FLORIDA MAN HAS GROWG GOD COMPLEX— IN 2024, MIKE PENCE IS GEARG UP TO GO ROGUE— NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TMP, IVANKA, AND DON JR.: DON’T F--K WH US— INSI THIS CABLE NEWS GIANT’S STREAMG DREAMS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IT CAME FROM WASILLA— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV
- GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?
- OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA
- DO GAY COUPL HAVE ESTAT & PROBATE RIGHTS FLORIDA?
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW. BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT. THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL. THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI. READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW. THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER
- GAY MARRIAGE STILL NOT LEGAL FLORIDA
WHAT IS THE FLORIDA LAW REGARDG GAY MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?
Florida Law Regardg Gay Marriage and Divorce - For those who are seekg a divorce om their partner of the same sex, they mt first file a petn... * florida gay marriage laws *
In January, Florida beme the 36th state where gay marriage is legal.
Hodg legalized gay marriage across the untry, Democrats filed a bill to get the language scbbed om state law. When Florida’s ban on same-sex marriag lifts at midnight, the Sunshe State will bee the send-largt state the Uned Stat after California to perm gay marriage, and raise the tally of stat where same-sex upl n marry the U.
What do this mean for gay upl Florida? Several urt clerks are already planng to issue nuptial licens to gay upl startg at 12:01 a.
RON DESANTIS SIGNALS HE’D BE OPEN TO MAKG FLORIDA AN ANTI-GAY HELLHOLETHE REPUBLIN ERNOR OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT OF WHAT’S BEEN DUBBED THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS.BY BS LEVFEBARY 8, 2022FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS AT THE OPENG OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE AT THE HYATT REGENCY ON FEBARY 26, 2021 ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FUNNY THG ABOUT REPUBLINS IS THAT SPE CLAIMG TO BE THE PARTY OF “PERSONAL EEDOM,” THE LAST YEAR ALONE, THEY HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT AMERINS OM: READG CERTA BOOKS, TEACHG ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, MAKG CISNS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODI, AND, THE SE OF SOME GROUPS, VOTG MOCRATIC ELECTNS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THIS EVINCE AND NCLU THAT REPUBLINS ARE MASSIVE HYPOCR—AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT! SO WHILE EPLY PRSG, ’S NO WAY SURPRISG THAT FLORIDA NSERVATIV WANT TO BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, AND THAT FLORIDA’S ERNOR, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE HIS EYE ON THE WHE HOE 2024, HAS SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE IATIVE.ON MONDAY, RON DESANTIS OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE IMPLEMENTATN OF “PROCR TO RERCE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PARENTS TO MAKE CISNS REGARDG THE UPBRGG AND NTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN,” BAN TEACHERS OM ENURAGG NVERSATNS ABOUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS THE CLASSROOM THAT ARE “NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS,” AND ALLOW PARENTS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IF THEY THK THEIR “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” AS PARENTS HAS BEEN VLATED. ASKED ABOUT THE BILL, DESANTIS SISTED IS “ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO TALK WH STUNTS ABOUT GENR INTY, CLAIMG TO HAVE HEARD EXAMPL OF CHILDREN BEG TOLD, “DON’T WORRY, DON’T PICK YOUR GENR YET,” AND WHERE TEACHERS ARE “HIDG” LSONS OM PARENTS.“SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TEACHG KIDS TO READ, TO WRE,” DESANTIS SAID, PLETELY IGNORG THE EMOTNAL VELOPMENT THAT ALSO OCCURS DURG KIDS’ FORMATIVE YEARS. “THEY NEED TO TEACH THEM SCIENCE, HISTORY. WE NEED MORE CIVICS AND UNRSTANDG OF THE U.S. CONSTUTN, WHAT MAK OUR UNTRY UNIQUE, ALL THOSE BASIC STUFF.… THE LARGER ISSUE WH ALL OF THIS IS PARENTS MT HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN TO WHAT’S GOG ON THEIR SCHOOLS.” WHILE HE DID NOT OUTRIGHT SAY HE WOULD SIGN THE BILL TO LAW, AS NBC NEWS NOT, “ WAS THE FIRST TIME THE REPUBLIN ERNOR SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE SCE WAS PROPOSED BY THE STATE’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV LAST MONTH.” WHICH IS CREDIBLY WORRISOME.OPPONENTS OF THE BILL—WHICH CLU THE WHE HOE—HAVE WARNED WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ TEACHERS AND STUNTS. “MAKE NO MISTAKE—THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ACTN. ACROSS THE UNTRY, WE’RE SEEG REPUBLIN LEARS TAKE ACTNS TO REGULATE WHAT STUNTS N OR NNOT READ, WHAT THEY N OR NNOT LEARN, AND MOST TROUBLG, WHO THEY N OR NNOT BE,” A SPOKPERSON FOR THE WHE HOE SAID A STATEMENT. “THIS IS POLICS AT S WORSE, CYNILLY G OUR STUNTS AS PAWNS POLIL WARFARE.”SEIZG ON THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS” LE TROTTED OUT BY DESANTIS AND OTHER REPUBLINS, SOUTH FLORIDA RINT JENNIFER SOLOMAN, WHO HAS LGBTQ+ CHILDREN, MENTED TO NBC NEWS: “PARENTAL RIGHTS? WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS? ONLY PARENTAL RIGHTS IF YOU’RE RAISG A CHILD ACRDG TO DESANTIS? DESANTIS TRI TO PAT THIS PICTURE THAT EVERY FAY IS THIS 1950S MOM AND DAD WH TWO KIDS AND A T AND DOG. THAT IS NOT WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE; THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNTRY LOOKS LIKE.” WHILE SOLOMAN TOLD NBC THAT SHE IS NOT PERSONALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE BILL ON HER CHILDREN, BEE THEY LIVE A PART OF THE STATE THAT IS “RELATIVELY ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE,” SHE FEARS FOR THOSE LIVG OTHER MUNI. “THERE ULD BE A FAY JT LIKE ME THAT IS GOG TO HAVE TO GO BACK THE CLOSET,” SHE SAID. “THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE TO TELL THEIR CHILD, ‘I’M SORRY, YOU N DRS THE WAY YOU WANT TO AT HOME, BUT YOU HAVE NO PROTECTNS AT SCHOOL, AND SO YOU N’T BE YOUR THENTIC SELF ALL OF THE TIME.’ THAT’S VERY DAMAGG TO A CHILD.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.WANT TO HEAR THE 10 SRIT WORDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?OKAY, THEY ARE: “THE BABYSTER NCELED, BUT STEPHEN MILLER IS WATCHG OUR KIDS.” THE NEXT 10 SRIT? “PETER THIEL TO LEAVE META BOARD TO PURSUE TMP AGENDA.” PER BLOOMBERG:PETER THIEL, THE TECH VTOR AND NSERVATIVE PROVOTR WHO HAS ADVISED MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR NEARLY TWO S AT FACEBOOK PARENT META PLATFORMS INC., WILL STEP DOWN OM THE PANY’S BOARD AFTER META’S ANNUAL SHAREHOLR MEETG MAY. THIEL, 54, WHO BEME A DIRECTOR 2005 AFTER AN EARLY VTMENT FACEBOOK, PLANS TO CREASE HIS POLIL SUPPORT OF FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP’S AGENDA DURG THE 2022 ELECTN AND DON’T WANT HIS POLIL ACTIVI TO BE A DISTRACTN FOR FACEBOOK, ACRDG TO A PERSON CLOSE TO THIEL. THIEL HELPED ELECT TMP PRINT 2016 BY DONATG MONEY AND SPEAKG ON HIS BEHALF AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN. WHEN TMP BEME PRINT, THIEL WORKED ON HIS TRANSN TEAM WHILE NOMATG LLEAGU TO FILL ERNMENT POSNS…. THIEL HAS NTUED TO SUPPORT TMP WHILE MEETG WH MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY AND MEMBERS OF THE FAR-RIGHT RECENT YEARS.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIEL APPARENTLY MIXED TWO PASSNS BY ADVISG ZUCKERBERG “ON POLIL ISSU,” WHICH REPORTEDLY CLUD “ENURAGG THE CEO NOT TO FACT-CHECK POLIL ADVERTISEMENTS THE N-UP TO THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN, A MOVE THAT MANY BELIEVE BENEFED TMP,” BLOOMBERG NOTED. WHILE MANY FACEBOOK EMPLOYE WERE EPLY UNHAPPY ABOUT THIEL’S 2016 SUPPORT OF TMP, ZUCKERBERG FEND HIS LONGTIME PAL, SAYG AN TERNAL MSAGE: “WE N’T CREATE A CULTURE THAT SAYS R ABOUT DIVERSY AND THEN EXCLUS ALMOST HALF THE UNTRY BEE THEY BACK A POLIL NDIDATE.“ AND NOW, HERE WE ARE!NOTHG TO SEE HERE, JT THE SUPREME COURT’S ULTRANSERVATIV DOG THEIR PART TO ANNIHILATE VOTG RIGHTSBY 2024, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY’LL LET VOTE WILL BE HALF A DOZEN WHE GUYS WHO TRAVEL TO MCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE AND SIGN A NTRACT PLEDGG TO VOTE FOR REPUBLINS. PER NBC NEWS:IN A 5–4 VOTE, THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY MONDAY FOR ALABAMA TO E S NEW NGRSNAL DISTRICT MAP EVEN THOUGH A LOWER URT SAID VLATED THE VOTG RIGHTS ACT BY NYG BLACK VOTERS A NEW DISTRICT. THE URT GRANTED A REQUT OM ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO PUT A HOLD ON THE LOWER URT LG. THE SE—THE FIRST TO REACH THE SUPREME COURT VOLVG THE REDRAWG OF POLIL BOUNDARI WH 2020 CENS RULTS—ULD AFFECT REDISTRICTG OTHER STAT THAT GAED MORY POPULATNS. THE SUPREME COURT ALSO SAID WOULD HEAR ALABAMA’S CHALLENGE TO THE LOWER URT LG THAT CLARED THE MAPS VOID. THAT APPEAL IS NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD UNTIL THE URT’S NEW TERM BEGS THE FALL. AS A PRACTIL MATTER, THE URT’S ACTN ALLOWS ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO E THEIR MAP FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTNS.AS SLATE’S MARK JOSEPH STERN NOT, YOU N TELL THE LG IS REALLY, REALLY BAD BY THE FACT THAT CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS, “AN ARCHECT OF THE JUDICIAL ATTACK ON VOTG RIGHTS,” CHOSE TO DISSENT ALONG WH THE URT’S THREE LIBERALS, WHICH WAS SADLY NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE FIVE OTHER JTIC OM UPHOLDG ALABAMA’S “EGREG RACIAL GERRYMANR.” AS STERN WR:OVER THE LAST , THE SUPREME COURT HAS BULLDOZED SEVERAL KEY PROVISNS OF THE VRA. BUT UNTIL NOW, HAD NOT YET REPEALED THE LAW’S PROTECTNS AGAST THE DILUTN OF VOT ST BY RACIAL MORI. THIS SHIELD, NTAED SECTN 2 AND CLARIFIED BY 1986’S THORNBURG V. GGL, REQUIR A THREE-JUDGE DISTRICT URT TO TERME WHETHER A REDISTRICTG PLAN RV UP MORY MUNI TO PREVENT THEM OM ELECTG THE NDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. ALTHOUGH THE GGL TT N BE DIFFICULT TO APPLY, THE RELEVANT FACTORS HERE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD: DUE TO RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTG THE STATE, BLACK ALABAMIANS NNOT ELECT THEIR PREFERRED REPRENTATIV UNLS THEY NSTUTE A MAJORY OF THEIR DISTRICT. ALABAMA REPUBLINS UNRSTAND THIS FACT, AND IS WHY THEIR NEW NGRSNAL MAP THLSLY DILUT BLACK VOT. THE PLAN PACKS A HUGE NUMBER OF BLACK VOTERS TO A SGLE, SPRAWLG DISTRICT THAT STRETCH OM BIRMGHAM TO MONTGOMERY, CLUDG AS MANY NONWHE RINTS AS POSSIBLE. THE FEW REMAG VOTERS OF LOR ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SIX MAJORY-WHE DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF ELECTG THEIR FAVORED NDIDATE. AS A RULT, WHILE BLACK AMERINS MAKE UP 27% OF THE STATE’S POPULATN, THEY NTROL JT 14% OF S NGRSNAL LEGATN.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHIF THAT STRIK YOU AS WILDLY MSED UP AND HUGELY EGREG, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. IN HIS DISSENT, ROBERTS WROTE THAT THE LOWER URT, WHICH LLED BULLSH ON THE NEW MAP, HAD “PROPERLY APPLIED EXISTG LAW AN EXTENSIVE OPN WH NO APPARENT ERRORS FOR OUR RRECTN,” WHILE JTICE ELENA KAGAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “TODAY’S CISN IS ONE MORE A DISNCERTGLY LONG LE OF S WHICH THIS COURT S SHADOW DOCKET TO SIGNAL OR MAKE CHANG THE LAW, WHOUT ANYTHG APPROACHG FULL BRIEFG AND ARGUMENT.… [THIS] DO A DISSERVICE TO THE DISTRICT COURT, WHICH METICULOLY APPLIED THIS COURT’S LONGSTANDG VOTG-RIGHTS PRECENT. AND MOST OF ALL, DO A DISSERVICE TO BLACK ALABAMIANS WHO UNR THAT PRECENT HAVE HAD THEIR ELECTORAL POWER DIMISHED— VLATN OF A LAW THIS COURT ONCE KNEW TO BUTTRS ALL OF AMERIN MOCRACY.”KEV MCCARTHY WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS HIS PARTY’S REBRAND OF JANUARY 6 AS A BETIFUL DAY HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR WH PARTY HATS AND RG DGSTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!FBI ARRTS TMP SUPPORTER WHO STORMED CAPOL WHILE ON BAIL FOR ATTEMPTED MURR (NBC NEWS)EUROPE RAMPS UP UKRAE DIPLOMACY AMID “EXTREME TENSN” (WASHGTON POST)AS PELOTON FIR OVER 2,800 EMPLOYE, ’S GIVG THEM A EE ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTN ON THE WAY OUT (INSIR)HOW JOE MANCH ED POLICS TO PROTECT HIS FAY AL PANY (POLI)TOP WHE HOE SCIENTIST RIGNS AFTER REVIEW FDS HE MEANED STAFF (WASHGTON POST)GOLDMAN SACHS’S WORK-FROM-OFFICE POLICY IS THE ABERRATN NOW (BLOOMBERG)FEDS ARRT MARRIED UPLE, SEIZE $3.6 BILLN HACKED B FUNDS (WASHGTON POST)FLORIDA HOME TO BE SOLD NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AL (AP)NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT MAFIA ACUNTANTS ARE REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS (BOG BOG)ZOO HIR MARV GAYE IMPERSONATOR TO GET MONKEYS THE MOOD (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — INSI JERRY FALWELL JR.’S UNLIKELY RISE AND PRECIPO FALL AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY— ERIC ADAMS PULLS CRYPTO-PAYCHECK STUNT HOURS BEFORE B CRASH— DAVE CHAPPELLE AND “THE BLACK ASS LIE” THAT KEEPS US DOWN— TMP’S JANUARY 6 COVER-UP IS UNRAVELG FAST— FLORIDA MAN HAS GROWG GOD COMPLEX— IN 2024, MIKE PENCE IS GEARG UP TO GO ROGUE— NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TMP, IVANKA, AND DON JR.: DON’T F--K WH US— INSI THIS CABLE NEWS GIANT’S STREAMG DREAMS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IT CAME FROM WASILLA— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV
The Republin ernor offered tac endorsement of what’s been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would ban talk of genr inty and sexual orientatn the state’s primary schools. * florida gay marriage laws *
The legal wranglg over gay marriage Florida go back to 2008, when a voters the state passed a nstutnal amendment fg marriage the state as “the legal unn of only one man and one woman.
GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?
SCOTUS lg on same-sex law. Get the answer to gay law Florida. Attorneys Gaville Florida helpg you to unrstand the new gay laws. LGBT... * florida gay marriage laws *
Sce then, five s were brought Florida challengg the state’s 2008 gay marriage ban, and judg all the s unequivolly the ban unnstutnal. Former Florida ernor Jeb Bh, who has announced he is explorg a printial n 2016, opposed gay marriage durg his ernorship, and didn’t endorse this week’s liftg of the stay.
” But the former ernor wasn’t publicly enthiastic 2008 about the succsful mpaign to ban gay marriage. He has also utned his party agast beg perceived as too “anti-gay. ” Later on Monday a note to the New York Tim, Bh avoid takg a firm stand on the end of the gay marriage ban.
OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA
Gay marriage has been legal natnwi for nearly eight years, and some lawmakers want to know why Florida still has a law on the books banng . * florida gay marriage laws *
“I hope that we n show rpect for the good people on all sis of the gay and lbian marriage issue—cludg upl makg lifetime mments to each other who are seekg greater legal protectns and those of who believe marriage is a sacrament to safeguard relig liberty. A Florida Gui for Gay Marriage Divorce. Sce gay marriage is a relatively new ncept unr the law, when a divorce happens between same-sex upl, the urts are alg wh this the bt way they know.
When to Alimony or Child Support, the same l apply to both heterosexual and homosexual upl. As you n see, there are some unique challeng that are gog to be faced when alg wh divorce of gay upl.
The “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would require the implementatn of “procr to rerce the fundamental right of parents to make cisns regardg the upbrgg and ntrol of their children, ” ban teachers om enuragg nversatns about LGBTQ+ topics the classroom that are “not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts, ” and allow parents to take legal actn agast school districts if they thk their “fundamental right” as parents has been vlated. 6 billn hacked b funds (Washgton Post)Florida home to be sold non-fungible token al (AP)New study shows that Mafia acuntants are really good at their jobs (Bog Bog)Zoo hir Marv Gaye impersonator to get monkeys the mood (UPI)More Great Stori From Vany Fair — Insi Jerry Falwell Jr.
DO GAY COUPL HAVE ESTAT & PROBATE RIGHTS FLORIDA?
* florida gay marriage laws *
Hodg, 1 the cizens of Florida now have a firm answer to the qutn, “Is gay marriage legal? 4 The Uned Stat Supreme Court has firmly tablished that all gay Floridians are entled to the same benefs of marriage/divorce as heterosexual Floridians. While is anticipated that gay Floridians will no longer have trouble obtag a marriage license or dissolvg their marriag, is not far-fetched to expect that some ernment employe/officials unfaiar wh the new law of the land or otherwise personally opposed to same-sex marriage may still hr same-sex upl om exercisg their newly tablished rights.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW. BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT. THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL. THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI. READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW. THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER
Consequently, gay Floridians should unrstand that they may still face some unique “bumps the road” when alg wh matrimonial issu and should nsir ntactg an attorney if they enunter ristance to the exercise of their rights.
By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged. As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.
Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori.
GAY MARRIAGE STILL NOT LEGAL FLORIDA
Gay marriage has been legal natnwi for nearly eight years, and some lawmakers want to know why Florida still has a law on the books banng . However, the ban on gay marriage that was also led unnstutnal 2015 remas, and now some lawmakers want gone too. In fact, 61% of Florida voters agreed to ban gay marriage that year when they went to the polls to approve a nstutnal amendment.