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Contents:

• SUPREME URT LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE ACROSS THE US – AS HAPPENED
• 4 SUPREME COURT JTIC VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: READ THEIR OPNS
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

SUPREME URT LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE ACROSS THE US – AS HAPPENED

Photograph: Evan Golub/Demotix/CorbisShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to e this featureLive feedKey events26 Jun 2015Summary26 Jun 2015South Dakota issu marriage licens26 Jun 2015Louisiana rists lg, Mississippi backtracks26 Jun 2015Florida, Missouri and Alabama issue licens26 Jun 2015Confn Mississippi26 Jun 2015Texas rists gay marriage lg26 Jun 2015Tennsee to issue same-sex marriage licens26 Jun 2015Kentucky and Arkansas beg issug marriage licens26 Jun 2015Geia to start issug licens26 Jun 2015Obama: 'a victory for Ameri'26 Jun 2015Obergefell: 'our love is equal'26 Jun 2015Supreme urt legaliz gay marriage across USShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to e this featureSummaryWe’re gog to wrap our live verage of the historic supreme urt cisn and the many nsequenc and reactns thereof – as legal same-sex marriag ntue to be issued for the first time many stat around the untry. “As someone who has dited much of my rabbate to the polil and spirual si of same sex marriage, I have a sense of wholens, that fally the pth of the spirual mment is matched by the pth of the legal protectns and rponsibily, ” said Joshua Lser, rabbi for Congregatn Bet Havarim Atlanta, which was formed by gay and lbian Jews 1985.

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4 SUPREME COURT JTIC VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: READ THEIR OPNS

The uple n the YouTube channel Jelly and Day, which has more than 120, 000 subscribers, and Contrerars and Perez say they hope to enurage other gay and lbian upl to be fortable showg their love public.

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

“Today’s historic victory on the backs of same-sex upl and advot who have worked for s to dismantle harmful stereotyp and unjt laws the qut for equal treatment, ” said Jam Esseks, director of the ACLU’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and HIV Project. ”Bourbon Street “was still sleepg off a haner” when heard the news om Washgton, Tom Dart reports New Orleans, but the s proud gay muny was ready to celebrate earnt nohels.

But half-a-dozen people were Cafe Lafte Exile, one of the bt-known of the clter of gay bars the heart of the French Quarter. Open 24/7, claims to be the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar the US and was a hnt of Tennsee Williams. ” Signatori clud Apple (AAPL) Bank of Ameri (BAC), Facebook (FB), General Electric (GE), General Mills (GIS), Goldman Sachs (GS), Google (GOOG), PepsiCo (PEP), Target (TGT), and Verizon Communitns (VZ) we got here Today’s cisn reprents the culmatn of one the fastt, most dramatic, most bipartisan social movements and nstutnal turnarounds Amerin years ago, 1972, the Court unanimoly dismissed the nstutnal protts of two Mneapolis men who had been refed a marriage license, Richard John Baker and Jam Michael McConnell, a sgle jt unr 30 years ago, 1986, the Supreme Court upheld the nstutnaly of laws punishg nsensual homosexual nduct as a ten years later, the ti began to turn.

”In 2003, another opn by Jtice Kennedy, the Court stck down a Texas law crimalizg nsensual homosexual nduct, overlg s 1986 lg. Now such unns will be regnized ’s cisn, the most important nstutnal cisn of the young century, marks the crowng achievement of the gay rights Same-sex Marriage. “The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law.

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. ”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights. ”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks.

Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.

Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a crime. 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.

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. Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. 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.

THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN

Kennedy, then the center of the High Court, rejected the optns before him, cidg agast sidg wh a same-sex uple who had been nied a ke for their Colorado weddg receptn and agast sidg wh the baker who said his oven was off-lims to gay upl.

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

Jt a few weeks ago, when Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the natn’s hight-rankg Senate-nfirmed gay member of the Bin Admistratn, joed TIME’s Washgton Bure for a wi-rangg nversatn, he was blunt: “I mean, Roe fell and that was the law of the land for longer than I’ve been alive. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.