What Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' bill actually says

Contents:

• OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA
• GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW.  BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT.  THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL.  THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI.  READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW.  THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER
• WHAT IS THE FLORIDA LAW REGARDG GAY MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?
• WHAT IS THE FLORIDA LAW REGARDG GAY MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA

In January, Florida beme the 36th state where gay marriage is legal. When Florida’s ban on same-sex marriag lifts at midnight, the Sunshe State will bee the send-largt state the Uned Stat after California to perm gay marriage, and raise the tally of stat where same-sex upl n marry the U.

What do this mean for gay upl Florida?

Several urt clerks are already planng to issue nuptial licens to gay upl startg at 12:01 a. The legal wranglg over gay marriage Florida go back to 2008, when a voters the state passed a nstutnal amendment fg marriage the state as “the legal unn of only one man and one woman. Sce then, five s were brought Florida challengg the state’s 2008 gay marriage ban, and judg all the s unequivolly the ban unnstutnal.

GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?

Former Florida ernor Jeb Bh, who has announced he is explorg a printial n 2016, opposed gay marriage durg his ernorship, and didn’t endorse this week’s liftg of the stay. ” But the former ernor wasn’t publicly enthiastic 2008 about the succsful mpaign to ban gay marriage.

He has also utned his party agast beg perceived as too “anti-gay. ” Later on Monday a note to the New York Tim, Bh avoid takg a firm stand on the end of the gay marriage ban.

“I hope that we n show rpect for the good people on all sis of the gay and lbian marriage issue—cludg upl makg lifetime mments to each other who are seekg greater legal protectns and those of who believe marriage is a sacrament to safeguard relig liberty. Hodg legalized gay marriage across the untry, Democrats filed a bill to get the language scbbed om state law.

GAY MARRIAGE

Supreme Court's landmark cisn Friday relegat Florida's gay marriage ban to the bwebbed rners of urt's lg brgs closure to a yearslong battle between same-sex upl seekg the right to marry and to have their out-of-state marriag regnized, and the state's Republin lears, who have fought at every turn. Although gay marriage beme legal Florida January, has remaed on appeal to the 11th U. Circu Court of Appeals Atlanta, wag for the Supreme Court to ci whether gay upl had the right to marry ban "is ad, " said Elizabeth Whe, a Jacksonville civil rights attorney who helped brg one of the s that led to a feral judge's cisn last year strikg down the state's same-sex marriage ban.

"The urt's 5-4 lg that all gay marriage bans are unnstutnal bookends s of tirels activism natnally and Florida, where lawmakers have passed some of the untry's tought antigay laws and where Ana Bryant's csa agast homosexuals the 1970s ma her a natnal celebry for the relig right.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FLORIDA LAW TARGETED BY NSF STAFF PUBLISHED DECEMBER 15, 2022 FLORIDA THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE A HUGE MULTI-LORED FLAG FLI OVER OCEAN DRIVE AS PEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA, DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL, LUMM PARK, SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021. (PHOTO BY GRG VIERA / AFP) (PHOTO BY GIORGIO VIERA/AFP EXPAND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - WHILE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL FLORIDA FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS BEE OF URT LGS, A BAN HAS REMAED STATE LAW.  BUT SEN. TA POLSKY, D-BO RATON, FILED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT.  THE BILL (SB 80), FILED FOR NSIRATN DURG THE 2023 LEGISLATIVE SSN, WOULD REPEAL A SECTN OF THE LAW THAT CLUS THE BAN. SAME-SEX MARRIAG BEGAN FLORIDA JANUARY 2015 AFTER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT HKLE LED THAT THE BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL.  THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LATER 2015 LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY NATNWI.  READ: BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY WHILE THE FLORIDA BAN HAS NOT BEEN EFFECT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED LEGISLATURE HAS NOT REMOVED OM STATE LAW.  THE 2023 SSN WILL START MARCH. DAILY NEWSLETTER

Although attus toward gay men and lbians have shifted rapidly across the Uned Stat, Florida's legislature remas eply divid. A few months ago, Tallahassee lawmakers voted to repeal the state's 30-year ban on adoptns by same-sex upl, but also nsired a measure allowg private adoptn agenci to reject would-be parents who are gay. "Reactn om gay rights advot arrived swiftly and joyoly, as many celebrated the certaty that gay marriage Florida would rema a legal right.

District Court gay marriage opponents predicted the lg would spire public backlash, jt as the urt's 1973 cisn Roe vs. "It's very nfg why they want to let gays be happy. … We n't say that gays are gog to be wele to e here and get married.

Petersburg, passed domtic partnership registri, the state ban cut off gay upl om many of the fancial and legal rights of beg recently, many gay upl livg Florida who were married other stat uld not get divorced. District Judge Robert Hkle led Florida's gay marriage ban unnstutnal and rejected Bondi's requt that he lay his cisn om takg effect while she appealed. 6, Florida beme the 36th state to allow gay Whe, who was born and raised Florida, the fact that state's marriage ban fell six months before the Supreme Court terced is a victory on s own.

WHAT IS THE FLORIDA LAW REGARDG GAY MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?

"• • •Yet many months after gay marriage beme legal here, not everyone readily accepts as the new realy. Immediately after Florida's marriage ban fell, more than a dozen clerks of urt, many of them the most nservative regns of the state, chose to stop holdg marriage ceremoni for anyone, rather than perform them for gay upl.

In most of the Panhandle and parts of Central Florida, same-sex upl who wish to marry n get marriage licens om clerks, but have no choice but to fd their own is still the policy Pas County, where the clerk of urt has said that most of her staff who oversee marriage licens are "unfortable" officiatg same-sex state agenci, such as the Bure of Val Statistics, have rpond to the legalizatn of gay marriage wh burecratic lethargy. Although hundreds of gay upl have married Florida, the bure still prts marriage licens wh the words "bri" and "groom. " Gay upl have also n to difficulty when tryg to have their marriag regnized on birth and ath legal experts said the Supreme Court's cisn will likely force slow-movg or reluctant agenci to regnize upl' unns.

WHAT IS THE FLORIDA LAW REGARDG GAY MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?

"There have been some enti that have been wag to implement full marriage equaly all aspects until there was a more, their md, fal lg, " said Elizabeth Schwartz, an attorney who sued on behalf of gay upl Miami-Da to overturn the same-sex marriage ban.

"Though eager to celebrate the victory, some gay rights advot utned that the legal battle for full equaly Florida is far om over.

Although at least 10 unti Florida, cludg Hillsborough and Pellas, have passed laws prohibg workplace discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty, throughout much of the state is still legal to fire people or ny them hog for beg gay or transgenr.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

"At the same time, you n get married today and fired tomorrow for beg gay Florida. Alli for Equaly Florida, a civil rights group for lbian, gay, bisexual, trangenr and queer rints, have troduced repeal proposals every year sce the 2015 U.

In a report by Bo Raton News, was stated that “known homosexualy” uld be nsired as a reason for barrg people om then, the fight for marriage equaly the untry raged on, and queer people om all over Ameri entered marriag and civil unns and fought to be regnized at the state and feral levels. Florida’s LGBT Adoptn RightsMuch like the fight for marriage equaly, the fight for gay and lbian adoptn rights was rife wh challeng.

In 1977, the state of Florida issued an adoptn ban on homosexuals, statg that same-sex upl were nsired handipped or physilly disabled and th not pable of raisg 2010, the law was repealed when a gay Miami-Da County rint petned for his right to adopt to the Third District Court of Appeals. Parental rights for gays and lbians Florida today are rather plited.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Florida’s LGBT Non-Discrimatn ProtectnsIn a study nducted by the General Social Survey, was found that 16 percent of lbian, gay, and bisexual rponnts had experienced losg a job due to discrimatn based on their sexual orientatn.

Gay marriage has been legal natnwi for nearly eight years, and some lawmakers want to know why Florida still has a law on the books banng . However, the ban on gay marriage that was also led unnstutnal 2015 remas, and now some lawmakers want gone too. In fact, 61% of Florida voters agreed to ban gay marriage that year when they went to the polls to approve a nstutnal amendment.