California voters will be asked to reaffirm gay marriage protectns on 2024 ballot

Contents:

• HOW OUR OPNS ON GAY MARRIAGE HAVE CHANGED
• WILL OTHER LGBTQ RIGHTS FOLLOW GAY MARRIAGE TO THE VICTORY LE?
• THE SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS: WHAT THE JTIC REVEALED — QUOTE BY QUOTE
• SUPREME COURT FDS NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAY MARRIAGE

HOW OUR OPNS ON GAY MARRIAGE HAVE CHANGED

When former Print Barack Obama mpaigned agast gay marriage 2008, the majory of his party agreed wh him. By 2011, the number of people who supported legalizg gay marriage fally overtook the number of people who opposed . Hodg lg, cementg to law a new fn of marriage, one that clud same-sex the urt’s lg, public acceptance of gay marriage has ntued to grow Ameri, even among Republins, many of whom vehemently opposed Obergefell.

” Among Republins, support for gay marriage reached 55%, markg the first time the poll’s history that a majory of the GOP was favor of has the public’s opn on this matter changed so dramatilly such a short time?

Perhaps the legalizatn of gay marriage was evable. Washgton Examer ViosTags: LGBT, Gay Marriage, Polls, Supreme Court, Democratic Party, Republin Party, Barack ObamaOrigal Author: Kaylee McGhee WheOrigal Lotn: How our opns on gay marriage have changed. WASHINGTON — In recent years, LGBTQ rights have ma signifint advancements the Uned Stat, but there rema areas of growg legislative hurdl and a untry that is divid on a long list of cultural and societal issu, the acceptance of gay marriage stands out as a remarkable exceptn.

WILL OTHER LGBTQ RIGHTS FOLLOW GAY MARRIAGE TO THE VICTORY LE?

Once a divisive issue, now has the support of 7 10 Amerins, acrdg to a recent poll om perhaps even more imprsive, gay marriage now has majory support across a long list of voter ’s probably not a big surprise that 83 percent of Democrats say they believe gay marriage should be regnized by law, but that's also te of 73 percent of pennts and, more unexpectedly, 55 percent of the Gallup data shows strong support om young and old as well. Olr Amerins tend to be more culturally nservative than the public at large and 60-percent support is a solid give a sense of jt how solid support for gay marriage is today, pare to Gallup's numbers on some other somewhat divisive s of bate, the moraly of abortn remas as divisive as ever — 47 percent of Amerins believe is morally acceptable. Obamare may be the law of the land, particularly after the Supreme Court's June lg on the law, but still only 56 percent of Amerins believe the feral ernment should make sure people have health re, may be close, but more Amerins believe gay marriage should be legal than believe that global warmg is occurrg.

It's close (a statistil tie really) but gay marriage holds a slight edge the numbers give a sense of the pth of support for legal same-sex marriage and they are even more remarkable when you realize how fast opns on the unns have changed. When Gallup first asked about gay marriage 1996, only 27 percent of Amerins supported legalizg the bond. By the time the Supreme Court led that all stat had to honor gay marriage as legal 2015, 60 percent of Amerins already favored that other words, the urt was leadg the natn on terracial marriage, but sentially followg public opn on gay not all issu are settled or head a posive directn for the LGBTQ muny.

It was jt over 20 years ago, only 1999, that then-Print Bill Clton clared June "Gay and Lbian Pri Month" for the first time. Back then, only 35 percent of Amerins thought gay marriage should be regnized by law, half the number the 2021 ’s evince that even a time of ep partisanship on what seems to be a ntent issue, opns n still change — and rapidly.

THE SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS: WHAT THE JTIC REVEALED — QUOTE BY QUOTE

She spoke om experience, havg had to persua her own New York Cy rabbi to nduct his first bat mzvah after she turned the Lawrence cisn 2003, Jtice Kennedy has sisted that laws disadvantagg gays and lbians vlate their digny and their nstutnal rights to liberty and equaly. Jtice Gsburg has been scribed as the Thurgood Marshall of the women’s movement, and she voked her experience as a ligator for women’s rights to qutn the nservative jtic’ claim that allowg gays and lbians to marry would transform the fn of marriage. Bee marriage has, recent years, bee creasgly clive, Gsburg suggted, gays and lbians serve the same equal treatment as women and other prevly disadvantaged groups.

Jtice Kagan was skeptil of the empiril claims ma by same-sex-marriage opponents: namely, that bans on marriage by gay people would enurage rponsible procreatn by straight people by emphasizg the nnectn between marriage and procreatn. Kagan found “explible” that Oh was suggtg adopted children would be better off if raised by married straight parents but not by married gay parents. “There’s a lot of people don’t like that I’m married and I’m gay, ” he says.

That’s pared to 73 percent of pennts and 83 percent of Democrats, a number that has remaed relatively the same recent years, suggtg may have h a ceilg for now, Gallup not a news happy news om Gallup this morng: Support for gay marriage is at 70% for first time, a majory of Republins now support same-sex marriage, & support among olr adults has reached the 60% mark.

SUPREME COURT FDS NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO GAY MARRIAGE

”The power of a nversatnIn figurg out the reasons behd risg support, ’s easy to believe that ’s due to more and more people g out, leadg more straight people to be able to say they know someone who is gay. Even Print Bill Clton 1996 — as he was signg the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to law, puntg marriage equaly to the stat — noted was important that everyone get to know more gay people, Wolfson rells. “As we dug eper to the strategy of changg public opn, what we learned is that the nventnal wisdom obscured a kernel of tth wh — ’s not jt knowg someone who’s gay, ’s havg a nversatn wh someone who’s gay.

… What we really need to do was talk about who gay people are, why marriage matters, what are our shared valu, then helpg people nnect their valu to the other people. I sleep wh who I want'Tan France and nfince and beg a dad: 'I've had to wa a very long time to make this happen'The Teletubbi embrace Pri, more than two s after 'gay' Tky Wky sndalWant liftyle and wellns news livered to your box? Watch the vio above for Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric’s terview wh Jim Obergefell, the platiff at the heart of the landmark Supreme Court se that today ma gay marriage legal the Uned Supreme Court has found a nstutnal right to same-sex marriage, strikg down bans 14 stat and handg a historic victory to the gay rights movement that would have been unthkable jt 10 years ago.

”Supporters of gay marriage and LGBT cheer outsi the Supreme Court after the jtic led that gay marriage is a nstutnal right Washgton, DC. (Photo: Jim Lo Slzo/EPA)Obama, who did not publicly support marriage equaly when he first ran for the Whe Hoe 2008, touted his endorsement for same-sex marriage his send mpaign as well as the admistratn’s repeal of the ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy 2011 as markers of progrs for gay rights unr his Jtice John Roberts read a stgg dissent om the bench as Kennedy sat bi him, his hand on his ch. ”Slishow: Supreme Court mak gay marriage the law of the land >>>Dpe Roberts’ harsh words, people the urtroom were all s as they poured out onto the steps after the cisn.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

In his majory opn, which surely will cement his reputatn as a champn for gay rights, Kennedy wr of the “urgency” of gay upl’ claims, and nclus is wrong to allow them to be discrimated agast any ’s clear the urt is eply divid over the cisn. Public opn on gay marriage has changed at lightng speed as well: 60 percent of Amerins support , pared wh jt 37 percent 10 years transformative opn will most likely ntue the trend toward greater acceptance of LGBT people around the untry, as the hight urt of the land has led that same-sex unns are legimate and lawful everywhere. Supporters of gay marriage rally after the U.

(Photo: Joshua Roberts/Rters) Even wh the landmark cisn, however, support for gay marriage has been almost nonexistent among elected Republin officials, whose posns on the issue likely will not change overnight.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Many 2016 GOP ndidat even stggled wh the qutn of whether or not they would attend a gay weddg. Dpe public opposn, many Republin operativ privately have suggted that urt lgs favorable to gay marriage are a blsg disguise for GOP policians.

Wh the judicial system expandg gay rights, the urts have eased the burn on the legislative and executive branch, removg prsure for them to act proactively on marriage equaly policy.

GAY MARRIAGE

) Some stat will most likely rpond to this lg by attemptg to pass legislatn to exempt people who oppose same-sex marriage on relig grounds, such as the ntroversial Indiana law that passed gay rights movement, meanwhile, will move on to employment discrimatn.