If the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law banng them.
Contents:
- ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI ‘TRIGGER LAW’ TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS SUPREME COURT LIBERAT: GAY MARRIAGE
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI ‘TRIGGER LAW’ TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS SUPREME COURT LIBERAT: GAY MARRIAGE
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Axs, "Ted Cz latt Republin to ph back agast SCOTUS' gay marriage lg, " July 17, 2022. In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman.
The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U. District Court judge led that the state’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriag had no “legimate purpose.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu later overturned the lg, restatg gay marriage bans Kentucky and four other stat.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * banning gay marriage *
A state urt judge led November that Missouri’s 2004 nstutnal ban on gay marriage was illegal. Sex between homosexuals is prohibed Namibia unr a 1927 sodomy law, which is rarely enforced. Supreme Court ever overturns s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriag, Mississippi has an existg law — even a provisn the state Constutn — banng same-sex marriage.
Seem farfetched that gay marriage uld be repealed? The Supreme Court approved gay marriage by a slim 5-4 marg the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodg se, wh nservative jtic argug that the right to gay marriage was not the U.
TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
The state approved placg the ban on gay marriage the Mississippi Constutn 2004.
No unty voted agast the provisn placg a ban on gay marriage the state Constutn. And to highlight what a hot-button issue gay marriage remas Mississippi, legislators 2016 passed a bill that allows public officials to opt out of providg servic to same-sex upl, such as issug a marriage license, and allows private bs not to provi servic to gay upl.
That legislatn, which still ensur the state will issue a marriage license to a gay uple even if a clerk opts out of providg the service, has not been overturned by the feral urts. In addn, pollg 2017 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute found only three stat where a majory or pluraly opposed gay marriage: Mississippi, Alabama and Wt Virgia.