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Contents:

• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI
• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• THE SUPREME COURT DECLAR GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT

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

Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry.

Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after the Supreme Court’s landmark lg on gay marriage. 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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U.

2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage. Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.

Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event.

US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI

For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.

Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

Supreme Court on Friday ma marriage for same-sex upl legal natnwi, clarg that refg to grant marriage licens to gay and lbian upl vlat the landmark lg will produce the most signifint change laws erng matrimony sce the urt stck down state bans on ter-racial marriage almost 50 years majory opn the 5-4 cisn was wrten by Jtice Anthony Kennedy. "Related: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Rulg: The HighlightsKennedy went on to speak directly to the type of cricism that often om nservativ phg back agast marriage equaly. "A total of 36 stat now perm gay upl to get married, verg roughly 70 percent of the US populatn.

""When all Amerins are treated as equal we are all more ee, " the print sundown on Friday, the Whe Hoe celebrated the lg by projectg rabow-lored lights onto the hoe's 's own views on the matter of same-sex marriage have evolved and he has phed creasgly for issu of gay rights his send the Whe Hoe Rose Garn, he said that social progrs sometim is slow, “and then there are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is reward wh jtice that arriv like a thunrbolt. Related: 'Historic Victory': Reactns to Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Rulg Pour InToday's lg overturned a cisn om the Sixth Circu Court of Appeals Ccnati, which said stat had legimate reasons for matag the tradnal fn of marriage.

Marriage did not e about as a rult of a polil movement, disvery, disease, war, relig doctre, or any other movg force of world history — and certaly not as a rult of a prehistoric cisn to exclu gays and lbians, " Roberts wrote. "RELATED: 2016 Candidat React to Gay Marriage RulgThe Supreme Court's cisn to strike down all gay marriage bans will also force nservative Christians and Republin polil lears to make two cril they acquice to this lg, or ntue to oppose gay marriage and fight to reverse this cisn the way nservativ have battled agast Roe v.

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

And how they will they rpond on other issu that volve the rights of lbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgenr Amerins, such as allowg gay men to lead Boy Sut troops?

Bobby Jdal of Louisiana, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, said a lengthy statement that the cisn "will pave the way for an all out asslt agast the relig eedom rights of Christians who disagree wh this cisn. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.

Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns. Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law.

Hodg over whether or not gay marriage is a right guaranteed by the US Constutn, and whether or not gay marriag performed stat where has been legalized mt be regnized stat which ban the practice.

On June 26, 2015, the Court led 5-4 that gay marriage is a nstutnal right, meang that all 50 stat mt allow and that all existg bans are valid. All four stat are vered by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu, which upheld the stat’ gay marriage bans Nov. 2014, th endg a n of succs for the gay marriage movement durg which more than 40 state and feral urts overturned same-sex marriage bans.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

The briefs filed support of gay marriage clud one by 370 small and large bs, one by 300 Republin officeholrs and activists, and one filed by a group of former high-rankg civilian Defense Department personnel. The briefs filed opposn to gay marriage clu those by stat that have banned gay marriage, along wh briefs filed by var nservative policians, scholars, and anizatns.

Prottors for and agast gay marriage assembled nearby, wh at least one anti gay marriage prottor managg to get a seat si.

After yellg “If you support gay marriage you will burn hell” while the arguments were progrs, the man was dragged screamg out of the urtroom.

THE SUPREME COURT DECLAR GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT

Kennedy exprsed a reticence to overri a fn of marriage that “has been wh for lennia, ” yet suggted that gay upl uld have a “noble purpose” wishg to marry. The New York Tim reported that Kennedy appeared “more emotnal and emphatic when he ma the se for same-sex marriage, ” givg “gay rights advot reason for optimism. Roberts told lawyers argug on behalf of gay marriage proponents that “you’re not seekg to jo that stutn, you’re seekg to change what the stutn is.

As the State self mak marriage all the more prec by the signifince attach to , excln om that stat has the effect of teachg that gays and lbians are unequal important rpects. It means gays and lbians for the State to lock them out of a central stutn of the Natn’s society.

Marriage did not e about as a rult of a polil movement, disvery, disease, war, relig doctre, or any other movg force of world history—and certaly not as a rult of a prehistoric cisn to exclu gays and lbians. Media ptn, The morng gay marriage me to the USThe US Supreme Court has led that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the Uned means the 14 stat wh bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them.