Gay marriage vs. straight marriage: Who gets married sooner – and why

Contents:

• AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
• THIS GAY COUPLE OF MORE THAN 50 YEARS WAS THE FIRST TO GET MARRIED IN DALLAS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULG
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
• STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.
• WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED

“This jt simply prov that the first same-sex marriage ever rerd the public fil of any civil ernment anywhere the world happened Mnota, ” Jack McConnell uple, who penned their story the memoir “The Weddg Heard ’Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage, ” exchanged vows durg a small ceremony at a iend’s home Mneapolis September marriage was later legalized — first Mnota 2013, and two years later across the U. “I was gog to fd someone to grow old together wh, ” Jack McConnell Mneapolis uple, both longtime LGBTQ activists, rema steadfastly optimistic about the trajectory of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights. Reporters wrote about what Fortunato and Schwandt lled a holy unn, which was ntroversial not bee there was talk of legalizg gay marriage but bee the two men publicly ask for -- and were nied -- the blsg of the Epispal Church.

THIS GAY COUPLE OF MORE THAN 50 YEARS WAS THE FIRST TO GET MARRIED IN DALLAS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULG

"The New York State Court of Appeals clar that a lbian or gay uple livg together for a least ten years n be nsired a fay for purpos of rent ntrol protectn, the first time a state's hight urt l that a gay uple n be lled a fay... The California Bar Associatn urg that lbian and gay marriage be legally regnized and Seattle, San Francis and other ci, 'partners' regulatns extendg certa protectns and rights to unmarried upl, straight and gay, are adopted.

"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.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

Holland, long among the gay rights vanguard, enacted a bill last year nvertg the untri registered same-sex partnerships to full-fledged upl now have the same legal stat as heterosexuals. 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. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law, ' the 12-page document by the Vatin's Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah said Thursday [July 31, 2003].

"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. "On Friday, September 19, 2003, Governor Davis signed AB 205, The Domtic Partner Rights and Rponsibili Act of 2003, at the LGBT [Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr] Center San Francis. "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.

In back-to-back ceremoni on the steps of the Cy Hall rotunda, Kuehl, California's first openly gay state legislator, pronounced her close iends and polil lleagu married to tears and shouts of jubilatn. If the se is permted to go to trial, San Francis officials said their brief, the cy will prent evince that 'relegatg same-sex relatnships to ferr, send-class stat severely stigmatiz gay men, lbians and their fai.

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

"In a new twist the battle over same-sex marriage roilg the Uned Stat, a unty Oregon has banned all marriag -- gay and heterosexual -- until the state cis who n and who nnot wed. "CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 17 -- Ameri's first gay marriage fully thorized by law took place here this morng when Tanya McCloskey, 52, and Marcia Kadish, 56, exchanged vows at the Cambridge Cy Hall.

STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.

"Thoands of marriag sanctned San Francis earlier this year were void Thursday when the California Supreme Court led that cy's mayor overstepped his thory by issug licens to gay and lbian upl. 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....

4, 2005) that a state law that effectively nied gay upl the right to marry vlated the state Constutn, a cisn that raised the possibily that the cy would beg issug marriage licens to same-sex upl as soon as next month. In her 62-page cisn, she wrote that the state's Domtic Relatns Law, which dat to 1909 and lims marriage to unns between oppose-sex upl, prived gay upl of equal protectn and due procs rights unr the state Constutn.

WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI

"The Hoe on Tuday rejected a nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage, endg for another year a ngrsnal bate that supporters of the ban hope will still reverberate this fall's electn. "In a cisn likely to stoke the ntent electn-year bate over same-sex marriage, the New Jersey Supreme Court has led that state lawmakers mt provi the rights and benefs of marriage to gay and lbian upl.

'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. Although the urt spl 6-1 on the nstutnaly of Proposn 8, the jtic were unanimo cidg to keep tact the marriag of as many as 18, 000 gay upl who exchanged vows before the electn.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

4, 2009] morng, 53 percent of voters had approved the repeal, endg an expensive and emotnal fight that was closely watched around the untry as a referendum on the gay-marriage movement. District Judge Vghn Walker found that the ban on same-sex marriage vlated the nstutnal due procs and equal protectn rights of a pair of upl - one lbian and one gay - who judge orred an junctn agast enforcement of Prop. Sent a letter to Congrs on Wednday sayg that the Jtice Department will now take the posn urt that the Defense of Marriage Act should be stck down as a vlatn of gay upl’ rights to equal protectn unr the law.