The hight-profile Supreme Court w for gay and lbian rights, a cisn wrten for history, stopped short of what advot really wanted. Where do that leave the movement?
Contents:
- THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE
* gay marriage political issue *
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They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * gay marriage political issue *
By David Pl Chief Polil WrerMassachetts' hight urt clared Wednday that full legal regnn of gay marriage, not civil unns, is nstutnal. Bh strongly oppos gay marriage, though he has said the past that state legislatur should be left to ci the issue of civil unns.
"In a statement issued followg the lg, the Democratic ontnner reerated his opposn to gay marriage and support for civil unns. "I believe and have fought for the prciple that we should protect the fundamental rights of gay and lbian upl, om herance to health benefs, " Kerry said.
GAY MARRIAGE
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. * gay marriage political issue *
"The majory of people solidly believe there should not be gay marriage, " said social scientist Tom Smh of the Natnal Opn Rearch Center at the Universy of Chigo. "Even abortn is only polarizg among the activists but when to homosexualy, " Smh ntued, "about 60 percent of Amerins thk that homosexualy is wrong and about 30 percent thk is not wrong at all.
"A CBS News/New York Tim poll done December found that 61 percent of rponnts said they were agast gay marriage (up om 55 percent July), while 34 percent said they favor gay marriage (down om 40 percent). The reason for the crease opposn to gay marriage rrelat to the first Massachetts Supreme Court lg November, which led that barrg same-sex upl om the benefs of civil marriage was unnstutnal. The issue me to urt as the rult of a lawsu filed 2001 by seven gay upl who sued the Massachetts Department of Public Health after beg refed marriage licens.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
"This is a very personal issue for me and all of the thoands of gay hoeholds but is also pably a polil issue and I thk there will be stggl ahead all over the untry and this will be part of the printial bat to e. Erickson spearhead the anizatn’s efforts to mobilize morate Amerins to support marriage for gay upl by changg the nversatn om legal rights and benefs to the importance of makg a lifetime mment ont of fay and iends.
”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman. “The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says.