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• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.

Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

“[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said. The Rpect for Marriage Act, as is lled, won Senate approval last legislatn won the support of LGBT advot as well as a number of relig anizatns and enti cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, though many Amerin relig nservativ still oppose gay marriage as unter to biblil is narrowly wrten to act as a limed backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, known as Obergefell v.

2 Hoe Democrat Steny Hoyer told reporters on Tuday the Hoe would likely take up the Senate's versn of the bill next June, the Supreme Court overturned the natnwi right to an abortn, undog 50 years of a ncurrg opn, Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote the urt should nsir reversg other cisns protectg dividual eedoms, cludg the 2015 lg on gay 568, 000 married same-sex upl live the Uned Stat, acrdg to the U. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed bipartisan legislatn Tuday to protect same-sex marriag, an extraordary sign of shiftg natnal polics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thoands of same-sex upl who have married sce the Supreme Court’s 2015 cisn that legalized gay marriage natnwi.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

It as the LGBTQ muny has faced vlent attacks, such as the shootg last weekend at a gay nightclub Colorado that killed five people and jured at least 17. Tammy Baldw, a Democrat who is the first openly gay senator and has been workg on gay rights issu for almost four s, said this month that the newfound openns om many Republins on the subject remds her “of the arc of the LBGTQ movement to beg wh, the early days when people weren’t out and people knew gay people by myths and stereotyp.

Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate. ”The legislatn me about after the nservative Supreme Court majory overturned the nstutnal right to an abortn, sparkg fears that the jtic may also revis liberal urt precents that enshre marriage rights for gay and terracial bill would require the feral ernment to regnize marriag that were valid a state when they were performed.

Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned Stat.The issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.