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Contents:
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE IN KANSAS AND MISSOURI?
- THREE SCENARS FOR GAY MARRIAGE KANSAS, PENDG ON SUPREME COURT LG
- U.S. JTICE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS GAY MARRIAGE KANSAS
- KANSAS VOTERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BAN
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
- BOTH KANSAS SENATORS VOTE NO, AS U.S. SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE IN KANSAS AND MISSOURI?
A urt office Kansas' most populo unty has issued a marriage license to a gay uple, believed to be the first such license the state. * gay marriage in kansas *
Separately Wednday, a feral judge stck down South Carola's ban on same-sex marriage as natn's hight urt nied a requt om Kansas to prevent gay and lbian upl om marryg while the state fights the issue urt.
The orr is nsistent wh how the jtic have handled recent requts om other stat that have sought to keep their bans place while they appealed lower urt lgs favor of gay and lbian upl. However, Kansas' emergency appeal was closely watched to see if the urt would change s practice followg last week's appellate lg upholdg anti-gay marriage laws Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee. Kansas, South Carola and Montana all have refed to allow gay upl to obta marriag licens spe lgs om feral appeals urts that oversee them.
THREE SCENARS FOR GAY MARRIAGE KANSAS, PENDG ON SUPREME COURT LG
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Gay-rights advot saw the Supreme Court's actn Wednday as another sign they're likely to ultimately prevail.
"Now, this is a day to celebrate, " said Tom Wt, executive director of the gay rights group Equaly, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt matas the lg appli only Douglas and Sedgwick unti, bee the ACLU's lawsu was prompted by judg' orrs there.
U.S. JTICE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS GAY MARRIAGE KANSAS
Supreme jtice on Monday temporarily blocked gay marriage Kansas a day before was due to go to effect. Jtice Sonia Sotomayor issued an orr sayg that the urt wanted gay marriage advot to rpond to the state’s applitn seekg to put gay marriage on hold. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree stck down the state’s gay marriage ban last week, lg that would go to effect on Tuday at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 GMT) if no other urt tervened. Sotomayor's actn do not mean the high urt will grant the Kansas applitn. * gay marriage in kansas *
Schmidt has promised to fend the state's gay-marriage ban urt as long as he n, and fellow Republin Gov. Louis each clared s ban unnstutnal, and gay-rights advot urged the state's attorney general not to appeal.
Wednday's two-sentence orr om the Supreme Court noted nservative Jtic Anton Slia and Clarence Thomas would allow Kansas to ntue enforcg s gay-marriage ban.
KANSAS VOTERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BAN
On Tuday, gay upl who applied for marriage licens Kansas were turned away by unty officials, spe the U.S. Supreme Court clearg the way for same-sex marriag the state on Monday. * gay marriage in kansas *
Civil rights activists fear that gay and lbian upl uld lose their marriage rights the wake of the U.
Conservative Jtice Clarence Thomas said his Friday ncurrence that the high urt should "rensir" s tablishg rights to engage gay sex and for same-sex upl to marry. "This new visn of the Constutn will emboln state legislators to make trouble — but today, has no immediate legal effects on the right to same-sex marriage or same-sex timacy, " the Human Rights Campaign said a marriage and gay sex rema legal Kansas and the Uned Stat. "More:Clarence Thomas lls for Supreme Court to 'rensir' gay marriage, ntraceptn after Roe v.
The crimal sodomy fn Kansas clus gay sex among nsentg adults, spe the provisn beg unnstutnal unr Lawrence v.
I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
Kansas on Tuday beme the 18th and latt state to pass a nstutnal amendment barrg gay marriage. But the Senate Connecticut — New England, the one regn holdg out on the issue — on Wednday voted to legalize civil unns. * gay marriage in kansas *
Vtigial homophobia serv no eful purpose for a state sperately hopg to attract young people. I have watched wh horror over the last few years as the discrimatn once leveled agast gay men and lbian women has been renstuted to harm trans folks.
Baldw, the first openly gay woman to be elected to the Hoe and the Senate, has led Senate negotiatns on the bill.
However, as recent polics shows, nservativ the polics dtry are prrizg the culture war beyond jt abortn, pecially targetg transgenr children and gay and lbian our recent Kansas gubernatorial electn, Republins dited entire mpaign advertisements to transgenr stunts playg sports, hypg that issue above water, energy or certa key enomic October, Republins promoted a false Brish tabloid story about supposed taxpayer-fund drag shows Kansas. Roger Marshall ed that story to validate homophobic stereotyp of gay people as sexual predators "groomg" past summer, nservative Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas urged the urt to "rensir" past lgs that legalized ntraceptn (Griswold), same-sex sexual relatns (Lawrence), and same-sex marriage (Obergefell) do the RMA f to this mountg nservative emphasis on LGBT people?
BOTH KANSAS SENATORS VOTE NO, AS U.S. SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL
The Supreme Court lifted a stay on the issug of licens, makg the state the 33rd to allow gay unns. * gay marriage in kansas *
And, what do that mean for gay and lbian Kansans, pecially the timated 4, 000 same-sex married upl Kansas?
Conservative policians are playg to a narrow stra of inty polics on the polil right wh their posns on the polil game at the expense of average gay and lbian Kansans that the posns risk harmg.