The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry.
Contents:
- INTERRACIAL AND GAY MARRIAGE WAS CODIFIED. BUT WHAT ABOUT DISABLED MARRIAGE EQUALY?
- WHY GAY MARRIAGE REALLY IS LIKE INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- EXPLAINER: CONGRS IS ACTG ON GAY, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
INTERRACIAL AND GAY MARRIAGE WAS CODIFIED. BUT WHAT ABOUT DISABLED MARRIAGE EQUALY?
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Eric Gay/AP. Two gay stunts at the Universy of Mnota wanted to marry, but were told no by the unty clerk bee they were men.
WHY GAY MARRIAGE REALLY IS LIKE INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
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(Virgia Supreme Court lg, 1878)Anti-gay-marriage argument:There are some tths that are fact eternal and based on nature and nature's law.
GAY MARRIAGE
(Lothrop Stoddard, lawyer and genicist, 1924)Anti-gay-marriage argument:The fay is the bedrock of our society. ()Anti-gay-marriage argument:There is no such thg as a homosexual versn of human nature.... Homosexual behavr is blogilly stctive to human health, and blogilly stctive behavr is blogilly unnatural by functnal fn.
Seaborn Rodnberry, D-Ga., 1912)Anti-gay-marriage argument:It is unreasonable... (Leon Bazile, Virgia trial urt judge, 1965)Anti-gay-marriage argument:It's pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman.
EXPLAINER: CONGRS IS ACTG ON GAY, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
()Anti-gay-marriage argument:The Bible is so clear s support of heterosexual marriage there is ltle need for to go through an exhstive fn of biblil marriage vers the typ of unns allowed by law today.
()Anti-gay-marriage argument:We've been hammered by the left for my standg up for the tradnal fay, and I will ntue to do so. (Rick Santom on WGIR rad, 2011)--So, will someone expla to me aga what mak anti-gay-marriage laws so very different om anti-miscegenatn laws?
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. ” 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.