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Contents:

• UPDATE: GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL INDIANA
• INDIANA ACTIVISTS PROTT LAW AMID NCERN OVER ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN
• TAG: GAY MARRIAGE
• INDIANA LAW DENOUNCED AS INVATN TO DISCRIMATE AGAST GAYS
• GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN INDIANA7 M READ
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
• CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS: INDIANA LAW TRIED TO SHIELD PANI AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA

UPDATE: GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL INDIANA

District Judge Richard Young on June 25, 2014, led that Indiana's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal, immediately allowg same-sex upl across the state to receive marriage licens. 6, 2014: Many cheers, but also some boos — and qutns — are beg shared on Twter, Facebook and other social media s the wake of the Supreme Court's cisn to let a lower urt lg stand legalizg gay marriage Indiana and four other stat.

17, 2014: Feral judge Richard Young has restated four same-sex upl' claim that Indiana's refal to regnize out-of-state gay marriag is unnstutnal. • Judge Indiana grants same-sex divorceJuly 3, 2014: The mood was ftive as Monroe Circu Judge Valeri Hghton spent the morng of June 26 pridg over marriage ceremoni for gay upl who shed to the urthoe here after a feral judge stck down Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage. • Greg Zoeller: State had obligatn to appeal gay marriage lgJuly 2, 2014: In a letter to The Star, Indiana general attorney Greg Zoeller said, "Not to have requted a stay Indiana's same-sex marriage s would have been a relictn of duty to my state client given that the U.

• Feral appeals panel stops same-sex marriagJune 27, 2014: A feral appeals urt issued an emergency orr late Friday stoppg same-sex weddgs Indiana pendg the oute of an appeal of a feral judge's lg that the state's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal. • Judge throws out Indiana's same-sex marriage banJune 25, 2014: A feral judge led that Indiana's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal, immediately allowg same-sex upl across the state to receive marriage licens.

INDIANA ACTIVISTS PROTT LAW AMID NCERN OVER ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN

• For newlyweds, possible stay of Indiana same-sex marriage lg clouds the horizonJune 25, 2014: A feral judge stck down Indiana's ban on same-sex marriag Wednday, leavg state officials, lawmakers, social nservativ, gay rights supporters and legal experts scramblg to sort out exactly what the cisn means — and what will happen next. • What means: Qutns about same-sex marriage lgJune 25, 2014: A feral judge today led that Indiana's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal.

TAG: GAY MARRIAGE

If you have addnal qutns, send them to Tim Evans at • Some Indy church ready to perform same-sex marriagJune 25, 2014: As news spread that Indiana's ban on gay marriage had been led unnstutnal, some Indianapolis church and venu said they will open their doors to same-sex upl.

25, 2014: After a Wednday lg that Indiana's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal, the state joed 27 other stat which gay marriage is eher allowed or allowed wh appeals pendg. Smh lumn: Long fight, mad dash to the altar for gay uplJune 25, 2014: There aren't many days when one n hear shouts of joy g om the Cy-County Buildg, a place known for jury duty, sour-faced puty sheriffs and staid ernment offic.

• Cartoonist Gary Varvel: Indiana's gay marriage ban overturnedJune 25, 2014: A feral judge stck down Indiana's ban on gay marriage. Almost exactly one year ago, Craig Bowen and Jake Miller beme the first same-sex uple to legally wed Marn County when Indiana began regnizg gay, unr Friday's landmark U. "Freedom Indiana and many other activists ntue to advote for addg sexual orientatn and genr inty to civil rights laws, to protect lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals om the urt lg is likely to heighten Indiana's tensns over relig eedom, the clash between eply held relig beliefs and LGBT civil rights.

INDIANA LAW DENOUNCED AS INVATN TO DISCRIMATE AGAST GAYS

Hundreds of people gathered outsi the Indiana Statehoe on Saturday, to rally agast a new law that opponents say uld sanctn discrimatn agast gay people.

Pence has said opponents have mischaracterised the measure and that was solely a lim on ernment rtrictg people’s relig some natnal gay-rights groups say lawmakers Indiana and about a dozen other stat that have proposed such bills this year are sentially grantg a state-sanctned waiver for discrimatn as the natn’s hight urt prepar to mull the gay marriage qutn. Democratic South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg touted on Twter his cy’s civil rights ordance’s protectns for gays and lbians, while Republin Evansville mayor Lloyd Wnecke wrote that the law “sends the wrong msage about Indiana”. Indiana Universy law profsor Daniel Conkle, who ttified favor of the bill legislative mte and says he is a supporter of gay rights, believ the predictns of negative implitns are unjtified.

Some Quaker church ntue to view “the groupg of homosexualy and transsexualy wh sexual vlence and btialy” and will only acknowledge a marriage between a man and a woman.

GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN INDIANA7 M READ

One such anizatn is the Friends for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC), a North Amerin Quaker fah muny that gathers twice yearly and is a proponent of Quaker support for the LGBTQ muny.

The lotn on North Talbott Street is mentned several tim articl The New Works News, a gay Indianapolis perdil, as a lotn for meetgs preparatn for a “March on Washgton” to prott vlence agast the LGBTQ muny.

’”[7] In addn to g the meetg hoe for activism, Indianapolis Friends published the phone numbers of Quaker anizatns, like the Friends for Lbian & Gay Concerns, gay bs and service directori.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

[5] Marriage Mut, “North Meadows Circle of Friends, ” April 12, 1987, accsed Friends for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Concerns. AdvertisementSKIP Scheer/The Indianapolis Star, via Associated PrsMarch 27, 2015An Indiana law that uld make easier for relig nservativ to refe service to gay upl touched off storms of prott on Friday om the worlds of arts, bs and llege athletics and opened an emotnal new bate the emergg mpaign for print. Advot of equal rights for gays said the laws pose a threat of abettg discrimatn, pecially om bs owners who object to participatg same-sex weddgs.

“The possible discrimatory effects are real, ” said Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. If that refal is challenged urt, a judge mt balance the relig burn wh the state’s “pellg tert” preventg discrimatn, acrdg to the Miller, who lobbied for Indiana’s new law as executive director of the group Advance Ameri, said uld help Christian bakers, florists and photographers avoid punishment for “refg to participate a homosexual marriage, ” protect Christian bs that refe “to allow a man to e the women’s rtroom, ” and sulate church that refe to allow their premis to be ed for same-sex Skipper/Associated PrsSome legal experts say the potential reach of the Indiana law, and many like , has been exaggerated by opponents. Benff wrote a Twter uproar was pronounced the technology dtry, which has emerged as a champn of gay Stoppelman, the founr of Yelp, which publish onle reviews of bs, issued a warng to stat like Indiana that “ is unnscnable to image that Yelp would create, mata, or expand a signifint bs prence any state that enuraged discrimatn.

CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS: INDIANA LAW TRIED TO SHIELD PANI AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

The legendary Broadway actrs Audra McDonald threatened to pull out of a g Indiana performance, before cidg stead to donate proceeds to gay rights groups. The actor Gee Takei lled himself “outraged” and suggted a boytt of the Tellem, a proment sports agent whose clients clu the basketball players Rsell Wtbrook, Anthony Davis and Jason Colls, the first openly gay N. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Right to Deny Service to Gays Stirs Broad Uproar.

Indiana bans gay marriage by statute and supporters have said a nstutnal amendment would provi addnal protectn om urt challeng. A versn of the amendment had passed the Republin-domated Indiana legislature 2011, but the Indiana Hoe January softened by removg language that would have banned gay civil unns. However, opponents argued the language was ambiguo, would hurt attractg new talent to the state and uld prohib lol ernments om offerg domtic partnerships removal of the ban on civil unns was seen as a victory by supporters of gay rights.

HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA

Sce then, same-sex marriage has been ma legal 17 stat pl the District of stat ban gay marriage by state statute, nstutnal amendment, or actn Indiana follows two high-profile lgs on gay marriage by the U. The urt paved the way for gay marriage to rume California and stck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) feral law that nied feral benefs to legally married same-sex upl.

Opponents of gay marriage argue that go agast relig beliefs, and that should be up to dividual stat to ci whether to legalize or not. 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 Indiana? Mike Pence has remaed firm  his support of tradnal marriage — even the face of rapidly-shiftg public opn on gay his State of the State addrs on Jan.

12, Pence ma clear he wasn't gog to viate om his relig nservative iology as a bate rag the Indiana General Assembly over whether to extend state civil rights protectns to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr his speech, the ernor said he believed "no one should be harassed or mistreated bee of who they are, who they love, or what they believe, " but he also said he wouldn't support any legislatn that would rce relig the qutn is: What will ernor do if legislatn providg LGBT protectns lands on his sk? Here's what we know about Pence's posns on gay rights issu over the years:Relign is a big fluencePence was raised an Irish Catholic fay Columb, Ind., where he and his three brothers served as altar boys.