7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

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• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

Prr to the Supreme Court lg, the 37 stat and the District of Columbia had legalized gay marriage:. In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman. The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U.

District Court judge led that the state’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriag had no “legimate purpose. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu later overturned the lg, restatg gay marriage bans Kentucky and four other stat.

A state urt judge led November that Missouri’s 2004 nstutnal ban on gay marriage was illegal. Adam Ebb, the first openly gay lawmaker the state’s General Assembly, troduced the bill, which was one of four pro-LGBTQ measur passed the state this month.

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

Indiana is one of those stat, though an attempt to remove s gay marriage ban was unsuccsful last month the Republin-ntrolled state Legislature. ”Five years after the Supreme Court had s say on the issue, same-sex marriage remas a polilly ntent issue, and LGBTQ advot ntue to battle urtrooms and stateho to ensure gay upl n exercise their right to marry. History of state-level gay marriage bansStat have two typ of bans on same-sex marriage: statutory and nstutnal.

The first one began the 1970s, when gay upl would apply for marriage licens and many state judg at the time led that the unns were not prohibed.