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Contents:

• SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
• KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• KY. ORRED TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE GAY MARRIAG
• KENTUCKY CLERK WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO GAY COUPL WON’T BE ALONE COURT
• KENTUCKY CLERK FIGHTG GAY MARRIAGE HAS WED FOUR TIM
• KENTUCKY JUDGE TURNS GAY MARRIAGE TI THE SOUTH
• FORMER KENTUCKY UNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL' RIGHTS BY REFG TO MARRY THEM, FERAL JUDGE L
• GAY KENTUCKY TRAVEL GUI

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

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.

”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.

KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE

The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl is seekg to close the book on a ntent se that ma her a pariah to progrsiv and a hero to some relig County Clerk Kim Davis has asked the 6th U. Easley / APThe new law provis “the very relig acmodatn Davis sought om the begng of this ligatn, ” Davis' lawyers claimed the urt ACLU, which was party to the su agast Davis filed by four gay upl who were nied marriage licens, offered no objectns. ”“On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg, we’re pleased that same-sex upl n fully realize legal regnn of their love, cludg Rowan County, Kentucky, ” add Louisville lawyer Daniel Canon, who reprented one of the beme the darlg of the relig right last summer when she refed to issue marriage licens after the Supreme Court legalized gay Apostolic Christian who has been married four tim — twice to the same man — Davis argued that her fah f marriage as the unn of a man and a woman.

She said that by signg a marriage license for a gay uple she was vlatg a te of her relign.

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-- A clerk's office turned away gay upl who sought marriage licens on Thursday, fyg a feral judge's orr that said eply held Christian beliefs don't exce officials om followg the law.

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

County Clerk Kim Davis ced her relig beliefs and cid not to issue marriage licens to any uple, gay or straight. "This is how gay people are treated this untry. They held hands as they walked to the clerk's office, and gay rights activists shouted "Good luck!

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO GAY COUPL WON’T BE ALONE COURT

A history of gay rights Ameri.

KENTUCKY CLERK FIGHTG GAY MARRIAGE HAS WED FOUR TIM

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.

KENTUCKY JUDGE TURNS GAY MARRIAGE TI THE SOUTH

” 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. 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.

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.

FORMER KENTUCKY UNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL' RIGHTS BY REFG TO MARRY THEM, FERAL JUDGE L

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.

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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.