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McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e.

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20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL

Timele provid by « Return to the gay marriage issue page  A history of same-sex marriage laws Important events are listed red  1993 * mariage gay 2001 *

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * mariage gay 2001 *

Sce many of our polil stutns are rived om ancient Roman precents, a quick look at Roman laws regardg homosexualy serv to illtrate what may be drivg some of the current ntroversy surroundg gay unns the Uned the world of the ancient Greeks seems to have tolerated homosexualy (as seen the poems of Sappho and the dialogu of Plato), that of the Romans was more ut. Although there is scholarly bate, Roman lerature of the republic and early empire suggts that men who engaged nsensual liaisons were often mocked as unmanly, but nsensual homosexual sex self was not would change the later Roman Empire.

While the first three centuri of the empire saw no legislatn as far as we n tell regardg homosexualy, asi om the ntuatn of the Lex Sntia as marked by s catn by the Roman jurists, the fourth century there would be dramatic new laws nmng male homosexualy.

In a law of 390, survivg the Theodosian Co and the Lex Dei (‘Law of God’), the emperors Valentian, Theodosi, and Ardi ordaed that any man takg the role of a woman sex would be publicly burned to laws certaly monstrate a change om the Roman Republic where, to be sure, homosexual rape of male cizens was nmned but nsensual homosexual sex was tolerated, even if sometim mocked.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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So, would appear that the growg fluence of the Bible an creasgly Christian Roman empire led emperors to nmn homosexual we look at the current attempts the Uned Stat to ban homosexual marriage, we mt clarify what the premis for such measur are. The lg has no immediate legal effect, but activists say uld fluence other urt s and boost their qut for parliamentary bate on allowg same-sex stck down a lonial-era law 2018 that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison, and there are some openly gay celebri.

Although a gay marriage was never performed Hawaii, the issue gaed natnal attentn and prompted over 40 stat over the next to pass Defense of Marriage Acts (DOMAs) that fed marriage as a legal unn between one man and one woman.

11, 2010, CNN released the rults of the first natnal poll to show a majory support for gay marriage, wh 52% agreeg that “gays and lbians should have a nstutnal right to get married and have their marriage regnized by law as valid.

WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

On May 9, 2012, Print Obama beme the first stg US print to clare his support for gay marriage, statg: “At a certa pot, I’ve jt nclud that for me personally is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I thk same-sex upl should be able to get married.

HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

Six other stat which gay marriage bans had been overturned, Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia, and Wyomg, were also affected by the Supreme Court lg bee they were the jurisdictns of the lower urts that had overturned the gay marriage bans.

Sixteen stat do not have protectns agast discrimatn hirg; the stat, a gay person n get married one day and be fired the next solely bee of their sexual Goodridg said they expected backlash to Obergefell—after all, they’d been through Massachetts.

In the year sce the Supreme Court lg, some state legislatur have nsired so-lled “relig eedom” legislatn that would allow people to refe certa servic—weddg ceremoni, therapy, whatever their bs offers—to gay people on the basis of their relig beliefs.

GAY MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT, ONE YEAR LATER

"Jt as Hawaii's high urt seemed poised to allow same-sex marriag, gay activists have seen their visns of legal weddgs on the beach of Mi disappear as voters approved Constutnal Amendment 2, givg the legislature power to 'rerve marriage to oppose-sex upl.

GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS

"Rabbis belongg to the biggt and most liberal branch of Judaism the Uned Stat have voted to regnise the partnerships of gay and lbian Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanctn relig ceremoni for same-sex Print of the Conference, Rabbi Charl Kroloff, said that gay and lbian people served the regnn and rpect due to people created the image of God. The upl are barred om adoptg children overseas bee of potential objectns om untri that do not accept gay the new legislatn, all referenc to genr laws erng matrimony and adoptn will be leted favor of the ntral-genr term, partner.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?

"Before the lg [Supreme Court lg that laws makg gay sex a crime were unnstutnal], supporters the Hoe [US Hoe of Reprentativ] of a nstutnal amendment that would more formally rtrict marriage to the unn of a man and a woman were havg trouble attractg sponsors.

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

"A unty clerk issued marriage licens Friday to at least 15 gay upl, some of whom then exchanged vows outsi the urthoe, as more same-sex upl led up for a chance to tie the Mexi law f marriage as a ntract between ntractg parti but do not mentn genr.

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