Supreme Court legaliz gay marriage all 50 stat stunng 5-4 cisn - Washgton Tim

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT: SUPREME COURT
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT DECISN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT
• SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT STUNNG 5-4 CISN
• 'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA JOS MILLNS CELEBRATN AS SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT
• GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT: SUPREME COURT

Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.

Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.

SUPREME COURT DECISN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT

Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. In a landmark cisn, the ne jtic of the US Supreme Court led that the US Constutn guarante marriage as a right for all, cludg gay and lbian upl. Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote.

By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.

SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT STUNNG 5-4 CISN

As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori.

'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA JOS MILLNS CELEBRATN AS SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT

The Supreme Court on Friday legalized same-sex marriage the Uned the 5-4 landmark cisn, the majory of jtic led that stat mt license same-sex marriag and also regnize gay marriag performed legally other stat.

Kennedy, who wrote the urt's prev three cisns on gay rights, had been the likely cidg the cisn was hand down, 36 stat and the District of Columbia allowed gay upl to marry. Each district urt led the petners' favor, but the Sixth Circu bed the s and reversed the was possible for the jtic to le that 's unnstutnal to ny gay upl all of the rights and privileg of marriage whout requirg stat to allow them to arguably was the largt se remag the fal days of the urt's term before ends next Tuday. The Uned Stat joed 21 other untri legalizg gay marriage, cludg Argenta, Brazil and 1996, former Print Bill Clton signed ​the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to law, th banng feral regnn of same-sex marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE

Almost two s later, June 2013, the Supreme Court stck down DOMA by clarg unnstutnal bee barred feral regnn of gay rights. The annual celebratn honors the 1969 Stonewall rts New York Cy, the birthplace of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. As recently as five years ago, only 42 percent of rints said they favored same-sex marriage, acrdg to survey, which polled 2, 002 adults, also found that some groups ntued to be broadly opposed to gay marriage.

Supreme Court lg givg gay people the right to marry all 50 stat is vditn of the belief that "ordary people n do extraordary thgs" and has "ma our unn a ltle more perfect, " Print Barack Obama said urt led that allowg stat to ny gay people the right to marry is a vlatn of the 14th the cisnPolicians reactSame sex marriage laws around the worldCelebri react to same-sex marriage cisnIn a 5-4 cisn released Friday, the urt led that the amendment oblig stat to license marriag between people of the same sex and to regnize marriag lawfully performed outsi of state. Thirty-seven of the 50 stat and the District of Columbia already allow gay marriage, and Friday's lg means the others will have to follow lg only affects state laws. ""When all Amerins are treated equal, we are all more ee, " he said om the Whe Hoe Rose praised the perseverance of those who have fought for gay rights and marriage equaly for s "and slowly ma an entire untry realize that love is love.

"Now, everyone n do this, " he same-sex upl livg  stat where gay marriage had been banned head immediately to unty clerks' offic to get marriage licenc as state officials issued statements sayg they would rpect the lg.

'"The Whe Hoe donned rabow lours, a symbol of the gay rights movement, on s Twter and home page celebratn of the s lg, the Supreme Court said the "long history of disapproval of their relatnships" and the nial of the right to marry has done a "grave and ntug harm" to same-sex Locke, 24, left, and her partner, Tiffany Brosh, 26, of Pearl, Miss., applied for a marriage licence at the Hds County Circu Clerk's office Jackson, Miss., moments after the U. Solis/Associated Prs)"The imposn of this disabily on gays and lbians serv to disrpect and subordate them, " Kennedy wrote.