Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023]

Contents:

• ACTUALLY, SCOTUS JT ALLOWED GAY MARRIAGE IN 11 STAT—INCLUDG SOUTH CAROLA AND KANSAS
• SUPREME COURT ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGE TO PROCEED SOUTH CAROLA
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• THE STAT OF GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH CAROLA
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

ACTUALLY, SCOTUS JT ALLOWED GAY MARRIAGE IN 11 STAT—INCLUDG SOUTH CAROLA AND KANSAS

In a startlg and unexpected move, on Monday the Supreme Court refed to review seven gay marriage s om five different stat.

SUPREME COURT ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGE TO PROCEED SOUTH CAROLA

That cisn effectively legalized gay marriage those five stat—Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia, and Wisns—almost immediately.

But wh the next few weeks, the urt’s move will likely brg gay marriage to six more stat—meang that, whout actually lg on the topic, the jtic will have brought marriage equaly to 11 stat one fell swoop.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Each of those urts had found that gay marriage bans vlate the U. But the Supreme Court has now officially refed to step —and that mak gay marriage the “law of the circu” the 4th, 7th, and 10th circus. Every state wh each circu, other words, is now bound by a lg that all gay marriage bans are unnstutnal.

Among the stat the 4th Circu, North Carola, South Carola, and Wt Virgia do not yet allow gay marriage. Among the stat the 10th Circu, Kansas, Wyomg, and Colorado do not yet allow gay marriage.

But the law of the 4th and 10th circus stat that gay marriage bans vlate the Constutn. Lower urt judg Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia, and Wyomg, then, are now legally obliged to strike down their stat’ gay marriage bans. Luckily for marriage equaly proponents, a gay marriage se is already pendg every sgle one of those stat.

THE STAT OF GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH CAROLA

Gay marriage opponents won’t have much centive to appeal the cisns; the appeals urts for each state have already found that gay people have a nstutnal right to wed. ” In other words, state attorneys general may simply direct unty clerks to start issug marriage licens to gay upl, acrdance wh the law of the circu.

Colorado’s attorney general has already directed gay marriag to beg. In stat wh vehemently anti-gay ernors and attorneys general, however, “There may have to be some extra steps taken, such as [gay upl] gettg a urt orr. State where gay marriage is legal, nyg a requt to block same-same weddgs om orr was another victory for gay marriage advot after a feral judge Montana on Wednday stck down that state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

”South Carola’s attorney general had asked the high urt to temporarily block a lower urt’s lg that overturned the state’s the Supreme Court’s orr, South Carola Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Republin, said he hoped the high urt, which has so far cled to take up s that would lead to a five lg on gay marriage, would ultimately uphold the marriage advot Louisiana said on Thursday they had joed those askg the high urt to le on the are already s volvg bans Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee pendg at the urt, which will likely ci by the end of the year whether to hear one or more of South Carola ban was stck down last week by U. A lbian uple who succsfully challenged the prohibn were the first to receive a marriage license at the Cas County Courthoe Great Falls, said Amy Cannata of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of gay marriage advot have had the upper hand the urts the past year, a Ccnati-based feral appeals urt on Nov.

6 beme the first to uphold gay marriage cisn by the 6th U. Same-sex marriage – also monly referred to as gay marriage –.

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr. Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law. Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.