Wh lg, gay marriag now off Arkansas

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• ARKANSAS GAY MARRIAG END, FOR NOW, AFTER LG
• GAY UPL BEG OBTAG MARRIAGE LICENS ARKANSAS
• WH LG, GAY MARRIAG NOW OFF ARKANSAS
• GAY MARRIAGE ARKANSAS
• Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ARKANSAS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
• JUDGE L GAYS LEGALLY WED STATE
• GAY MARRIAGE DON'T PLAY ARKANSASRED STATE REACTNAN ARKANSAS JUDGE'S LG STRIKE DOWN A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN IS GETTG NATNAL ATTENTN—SO WHY ARE LOL POLICIANS OM BOTH PARTI KEEPG MUM?BEN JABSUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 14, 2014 5:45AM EDT JAB SLATON/RTERSWHEN AN ARKANSAS JUDGE LED LAST WEEK THAT THE STATE'S BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UNNSTUTNAL, SET OFF A BLZ OF NATNAL ATTENTN AND SENT GAY AND LBIAN UPL SHG TO THE URTHOE, THE HOP OF GETTG MARRIED BEFORE THE BAN ULD BE RTORED BY FURTHER LIGATN. BUT SI ARKANSAS—WHICH FEATUR ONE OF THE MOST PETIVE SENATE RAC THE UNTRY AS WELL AS A CLOSELY NTTED ERNOR’S RACE—THE POLIL IMPACT HAS BEEN NEAR MIMAL. AFTER ALL, BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND THE REPUBLIN NDIDAT THIS NSERVATIVE SOUTHERN STATE ARE OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE. IN FACT, THE ONLY STATEWI OFFICIAL TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATTORNEY GENERAL DT MCDANIEL, IS LEADG THE LEGAL FIGHT URT TO RESTATE THE BAN. BUT THE FACT THAT NDIDAT OM BOTH PARTI ARE EQUALLY OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISN’T THE ONLY REASON THAT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN BLUNTED. IT'S ALSO A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD THAT ULD HURT LOL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLINS ALIKE.IN FACT, REPRENTATIV OF BOTH CUMBENT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR MARK PRYOR AND HIS GOP CHALLENGER, REP. TOM COTTON, DODGED MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR MENT OM THE DAILY BEAST ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ACRDG TO JAY BARTH, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT HENDRIX COLLEGE, WHILE OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MAY HELP PRYOR AND FORMER REP. MIKE ROSS, THE DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, DIFFERENTIATE THEMSELV OM THE NATNAL PARTY, THE ISSUE ALSO HELPS COTTON AND FORMER REP. ASA HUTCHSON, THE GOP NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, BY ADDG EXTRA FUEL TO THE PARTY’S SOCIAL NSERVATIVE BASE. BARTH FURTHER NOTED THAT NEHER COTTON OR HUTCHSON ARE KNOWN AS SOCIAL NSERVATIVE DIEHARDS, WHICH LSENS THE IMPACT. FOR THE REPUBLINS, BEATG THE ANTI-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DM WOULD ALSO BE SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC FOR THEIR MPAIGNS. WHILE COTTON HAS RECENTLY BEEN NNG POSIVE BGRAPHIL ADS AN ATTEMPT TO BOOST HIS LAGGG POLL NUMBERS, HIS MSAGE HAS FOCED ON OBAMARE AND TYG PRYOR TO THE NATNAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. TALKG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER SOCIAL ISSU WOULD TAKE HIM DOWN A SI PATH.THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ARKANSAS IS LIKELY TO NTUE FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AS THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT NSIRS A MOTN TO STAY THE FRIDAY’S LG ALLOWG GAY WEDDGS THE STATE. BUT WHILE MAY RAGE THE URTROOM, FOR NOW, DON’T SEEM LIKELY TO HAVE AN EFFECT AT THE BALLOT BOX. BEN JABS

ARKANSAS GAY MARRIAG END, FOR NOW, AFTER LG

HistoryHomosexual activy Arkansas? Homosexual activy Arkansas is legal.

GAY UPL BEG OBTAG MARRIAGE LICENS ARKANSAS

Current statSce Oct 29, 2001Legal Supreme Court overturned 1977 law banng homosexual activySame-sex marriage Arkansas? Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Arkansas?

WH LG, GAY MARRIAG NOW OFF ARKANSAS

— Gay marriage arrived the Bible Belt on Saturday, begng wh two women who had traveled overnight to ensure they'd be first le. Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza paved the way Friday wh a lg that removed a 10-year-old barrier, sayg a nstutnal amendment overwhelmgly passed by voters 2004 banng gay marriage was "an unnstutnal attempt to narrow the fn of equaly.

" Piazza's lg also overturned a 1997 state law banng gay bee Piazza didn't issue a stay, Arkansas' 75 unty clerks were left to ci for themselv whether to grant marriage licens. A judge overturned amendment 83 Friday, which banned same-sex marriage the state of Bentham / APRambo, 26, and Seaton, 27, were the first gay uple to be legally married the old Conferacy. Piazza's lg also overturned a 1997 state law banng gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE ARKANSAS

Arkansas' lg me a week after Attorney General, Dt McDaniel beme the first statewi elected official to announce he personally supports gay marriage rights.

Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE BEGS ARKANSAS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?

(AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Wednday refed to put on hold a lg that overturned the state's nstutnal ban on gay marriage, but the short-lived abily for same-sex upl to wed the state still me to a halt amid nfn about what next. Although the jtic refed to spend the lower urt's lg overturng the state nstutn's gay marriage ban, they said the lg didn't addrs a separate state law that, among other thgs, bars unty clerks om issug marriage licens to same-sex upl. But he didn't le on the separate law that regulat the nduct of unty clerks, which threatens f if they issue marriage licens to same-sex five unti rpond to Piazza's cisn by issug marriage licens to gay upl, and more than 450 gay upl Arkansas have sce received permissn to marry.

"The state's other 70 unti had not issued licens to gay upl, wh many sayg the Supreme Court need to weigh their lg Wednday, the jtic simply noted that, ed, the l erng clerks remas on the books bee Piazza didn't specifilly void . Lawyers for gay upl said Piazza uld simply rporate broar language when he fil a fal orr. "I would argue that is implic his lg, but we're gog to have to get him to addrs that, " lawyer Jack Wagoner Owens, who reprented four unti named as fendants the gay upl' lawsu, said the unti were rrect to wa for further guidance.

Arkansas voters approved a gay marriage ban by a 3-to-1 marg 2004, but Piazza's lg cleared the way for the first same-sex marriag the Bible Belt. McDaniel recently said he supported gay marriage personally but would still fend the state's ban. Seventeen other stat allow gay marriage.

JUDGE L GAYS LEGALLY WED STATE

Judg have stck down bans Idaho, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Baldw, who married Dev Ruseal on Monday after the Bryant uple received Ltle Rock's send license given to a gay uple, said the jtic offered no rolutn.

— More than 200 gay upl obtaed Arkansas marriage licens Monday after a judge tossed out the state’s 10-year-old same-sex marriage ban, but only at a handful of urtho as an overwhelmg majory of unty clerks this part of the Bible Belt said they first wanted the state Supreme Court to weigh . In other stat that have seen gay-marriage bans overturned, judg eher issued stays wh their orrs or state lawyers sought them wh some immediacy.

GAY MARRIAGE DON'T PLAY ARKANSASRED STATE REACTNAN ARKANSAS JUDGE'S LG STRIKE DOWN A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN IS GETTG NATNAL ATTENTN—SO WHY ARE LOL POLICIANS OM BOTH PARTI KEEPG MUM?BEN JABSUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 14, 2014 5:45AM EDT JAB SLATON/RTERSWHEN AN ARKANSAS JUDGE LED LAST WEEK THAT THE STATE'S BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UNNSTUTNAL, SET OFF A BLZ OF NATNAL ATTENTN AND SENT GAY AND LBIAN UPL SHG TO THE URTHOE, THE HOP OF GETTG MARRIED BEFORE THE BAN ULD BE RTORED BY FURTHER LIGATN. BUT SI ARKANSAS—WHICH FEATUR ONE OF THE MOST PETIVE SENATE RAC THE UNTRY AS WELL AS A CLOSELY NTTED ERNOR’S RACE—THE POLIL IMPACT HAS BEEN NEAR MIMAL. AFTER ALL, BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND THE REPUBLIN NDIDAT THIS NSERVATIVE SOUTHERN STATE ARE OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE. IN FACT, THE ONLY STATEWI OFFICIAL TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATTORNEY GENERAL DT MCDANIEL, IS LEADG THE LEGAL FIGHT URT TO RESTATE THE BAN. BUT THE FACT THAT NDIDAT OM BOTH PARTI ARE EQUALLY OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISN’T THE ONLY REASON THAT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN BLUNTED. IT'S ALSO A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD THAT ULD HURT LOL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLINS ALIKE.IN FACT, REPRENTATIV OF BOTH CUMBENT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR MARK PRYOR AND HIS GOP CHALLENGER, REP. TOM COTTON, DODGED MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR MENT OM THE DAILY BEAST ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ACRDG TO JAY BARTH, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT HENDRIX COLLEGE, WHILE OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MAY HELP PRYOR AND FORMER REP. MIKE ROSS, THE DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, DIFFERENTIATE THEMSELV OM THE NATNAL PARTY, THE ISSUE ALSO HELPS COTTON AND FORMER REP. ASA HUTCHSON, THE GOP NDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, BY ADDG EXTRA FUEL TO THE PARTY’S SOCIAL NSERVATIVE BASE. BARTH FURTHER NOTED THAT NEHER COTTON OR HUTCHSON ARE KNOWN AS SOCIAL NSERVATIVE DIEHARDS, WHICH LSENS THE IMPACT. FOR THE REPUBLINS, BEATG THE ANTI-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DM WOULD ALSO BE SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC FOR THEIR MPAIGNS. WHILE COTTON HAS RECENTLY BEEN NNG POSIVE BGRAPHIL ADS AN ATTEMPT TO BOOST HIS LAGGG POLL NUMBERS, HIS MSAGE HAS FOCED ON OBAMARE AND TYG PRYOR TO THE NATNAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. TALKG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER SOCIAL ISSU WOULD TAKE HIM DOWN A SI PATH.THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ARKANSAS IS LIKELY TO NTUE FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AS THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT NSIRS A MOTN TO STAY THE FRIDAY’S LG ALLOWG GAY WEDDGS THE STATE. BUT WHILE MAY RAGE THE URTROOM, FOR NOW, DON’T SEEM LIKELY TO HAVE AN EFFECT AT THE BALLOT BOX. BEN JABS

The 2004 gay-marriage ban passed all 75 unti, but fared poort around Eureka Sprgs, Fayetteville and Ltle Rock — where the bulk of the licens have been issued. Washgton County had 84 gay upl — wh office employe at Fayetteville g Whe-Out to rrect “Mr. Usg siar language, judg have sce led agast gay-marriage bans Arkansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia and Texas, and orred Kentucky, Oh and Tennsee to regnize same-sex marriag om other stat.

Marn County, wh a large populatn of retire, said issued one license to a gay uple, and Sale County, a nservative enclave near Ltle Rock, issued six. (AP) — Gay upl Arkansas will not be able to get married even though the state Supreme Court upheld a lg that stck down the ban on same-sex marriage bee a separate law that prevents issug marriage licens to gays is still an unsigned orr, the jtic refed to put the lg by Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza on hold.

They had wanted to know what to do wh the nflictg fdgs: the gay-marriage ban is unnstutnal, but clerks aren't thorized to do anythg about . "After Piazza's cisn last Friday, clerks five unti rpond by issug marriage licens to gay upl. Through Wednday eveng, 456 gay upl Arkansas had sce received permissn to marry, acrdg to an Associated Prs nvass of unty clerks.