What was the first untry to legalize gay marriage? - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT, ONE YEAR LATER
• GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS
• WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL

”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. 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.

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.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

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. 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.

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

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.

WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

"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. "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.

HISTORY OF 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. "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.

24, 2004] while makg his most revealg public ments so far about the sexual orientatn of his gay his posn on the subject at a town hall meetg here, Cheney replied: 'Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so 's an issue that our fay is very faiar wh.... 'In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ' he wrote, 'the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl. Proposn 8 was the most expensive proposn on any ballot the natn this year, wh more than $74 ln spent by both measure's most fervent proponents believed that nothg ls than the future of tradnal fai was at stake, while opponents believed that they were fightg for the fundamental right of gay people to be treated equally unr the years ago, Californians voted 61% to fe marriage as beg only between a man and a California Supreme Court overturned that measure, Proposn 22, s May 15 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage on the grounds that the state Constutn required equal treatment of gay and lbian upl.

GAY MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT, ONE YEAR LATER

Cuomo signed the measure after passed a Republin-ntrolled Senate on Friday night [June 24, 2011], raisg qutns as to whether the move reflects new momentum the gay rights said the law will grant same-sex upl equal rights to marry 'as well as hundreds of rights, benefs and protectns that are currently limed to married upl of the oppose sex. Print history to fully embrace that level of civil rights for ’s announcement gave an immediate jolt to the s-long movement for gay equaly at a moment when a growg number of stat are movg to ban — or legalize — same-sex unns and as polls show a majory of Amerins support marriage rights.

GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS

"Voters Mae and Maryland approved same-sex marriage on a day of electn rults that jubilant gay rights advot lled a historic turng pot, the first time that marriage for gay men and lbians has been approved at the ballot Mnota, another first, voters rejected a proposal to amend the State Constutn to fe marriage as between a man and a woman, a measure that has been enshred the nstutns of 30 stat. "The Pentagon announced Monday that would extend 20 new benefs to same-sex ary upl, cludg accs to base facili and groups as well as jot assignments, the latt move by the Obama admistratn to heed lls om gay and lbians prsg for change. "The Supreme Court stck down a key part of the feral Defense of Marriage Act on Wednday and clared that same-sex upl who are legally married serve equal rights to the benefs unr feral law that go to all other married cisn is a landmark w for the gay rights movement.

Dissentg were Jtic John Roberts, Anton Slia, Samuel Alo and Clarence lg means that more than 100, 000 gay and lbian upl who are legally married will be able to take advantage of tax breaks, pensn rights and other benefs that are available to other married upl. "The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg Wednday private parti do not have 'standg' to fend California's voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned lg clears the way for same-sex marriag California to 5-4 cisn avoids, for now, a sweepg ncln on whether same-sex marriage is a nstutnal 'equal protectn' right that would apply to all issue was whether the Constutn's guarantee of equal protectn unr the law prevents stat om fg marriage to exclu same-sex upl, and whether a state n revoke same-sex marriage through referendum, as California did, once already has been a majory of the Supreme Court opted not to le on those issu.

"All legally married same-sex upl will be regnized for feral tax purpos no matter what state they live , the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department announced Thursday a change that will affect numero upl stat that have not permted gay change policy follows the Supreme Court's cisn June overturng a key provisn of the Defense of Marriage Act that barred the feral ernment om regnizg same-sex marriag for purpos such as surance benefs, immigratn and tax new approach 'provis accs to benefs, rponsibili and protectns unr feral tax law that all Amerins serve, ' Treasury Secretary Jab J. "A tough ban on same-sex relatnships that threatens vlators wh 14-year prison terms has been quietly signed to law by the print of Nigeria, Ai’s most populo natn, a step that rights advot have long feared not only as a reprsn aimed at gays but as an afont to basic eedoms of speech and ban, known as the Same Sex Marriage Prohibn Act, was passed by Parliament May but was not signed by the print, Goodluck Jonathan, until Jan. 7, Nigerian news agenci reported Monday om Abuja, the the Nigerian law, is illegal not only to engage an timate relatnship wh a member of the same sex, but to attend or anize a meetg of gays, or patronize or operate any type of gay anizatn, cludg private clubs.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?

"The Prbyterian Church (USA) voted Thursday (June 19) to allow gay and lbian weddgs wh the church, makg among the largt Christian nomatns to take an embracg step toward same-sex a 76-24 percent vote, the General Assembly of the 1.

"The Uned Natns announced Monday [July 7, 2014]  would regnize the gay marriag of all s staffers, a major policy shift that opens the door for the spo of homosexual employe to enjoy the same benefs as the hbands and wiv of their heterosexual lleagu.

Supreme Court on Monday cled to ci once and for all whether stat n ban gay marriage, a surprise move that will allow gay men and women to marry five stat where same-sex weddgs were prevly rejectg appeals s volvg Virgia, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisns and Indiana, the urt left tact lower-urt lgs that had stck down the bans those stat. But the high urt's actn means there will be no imment natnal lg on the issue, wh ligatn stat where gay marriage is still banned likely to stat unr the jurisdictn of appeals urts that have stck down the bans will also be affected by the Supreme Court's cisn, meang the number of stat wh gay marriage is likely to quickly jump om 19 to 30.

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

"A feral appeals urt panel upheld bans on same-sex marriage four stat Thursday, a break wh other feral urts that mak almost certa the Supreme Court mt take up the issue of whether gay upl have a nstutnal right to cisn overturned lower-urt lgs Michigan, Oh, Tennsee and Kentucky and mak the 6th Circu the first appeals urt to uphold state bans sce the Supreme Court stck down part of the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013. Supreme Court cleared Kansas to bee the 33rd state wh same-sex marriage, turng away a bid by state officials who sought to stop the weddgs while a legal fight plays ’s rebuff, which me whout explanatn, tracks siar Supreme Court orrs that let gay marriage start Idaho and Alaska recent weeks.

That, upled wh his earlier judicial opns, gave gay rights advot reason for optimism by the end of the arguments, which lasted two and a half jtic appeared to clash over not only what is the right answer the se but also over how to reach . "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…The cisn, which was the culmatn of s of ligatn and activism, set off celebratns across the untry and the first same-sex marriag several stat. "Epispalians overwhelmgly voted Wednday to allow relig weddgs for same-sex upl, solidifyg the church's embrace of gay rights that began more than a ago wh the electn of the first openly gay vote me Salt Lake Cy at the Epispal General Conventn, days after the U.