Bobby Jdal: I'm really, really agast gay marriage

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• BOBBY JDAL GIV UP LAST STAND AGAST GAY MARRIAGE LICENS IN LOUISIANA
• BOBBY JDAL: I'M REALLY, REALLY AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• BOBBY JDAL: I’M HOLDG FIRM AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

BOBBY JDAL GIV UP LAST STAND AGAST GAY MARRIAGE LICENS IN LOUISIANA

District Judge Mart Feldman officially stck down the state's same-sex marriage ban and directed all state agenci Louisiana to regnize gay marriage, the New Orleans Tim-Piyune reports.

Jdal's admistratn fally relented and agreed to abi by the most of the remag stat wh gay marriage bans immediately began issug marriage licens to same-sex upl last Friday, the day of the Supreme Court lg, state officials Louisiana looked for ways to postpone the evable. ” Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell (R) meanwhile said that bee the Supreme Court's June 26 lg did not directly orr stat to beg issug marriage licens to gay upl, "there is not yet a legal requirement for officials to issue marriage licens or perform marriag for same-sex upl Louisiana.

BOBBY JDAL: I'M REALLY, REALLY AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circu formally overturned Louisiana's gay marriage ban, seemgly givg Jdal the go-ahead. When that urt said this means you on Thursday, Jdal had no choice but to give up his You GoPolicians React To Gay Marriage RulgPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

Bobby Jdal doubled down on his stance opposg gay marriage on Thursday, wrg an op-ed for The New York Tim that the untry mt protect his and others' relig liberty to do and ntroversial relig eedom bills Indiana and Arkansas -- which say relig eedom n be ed as a fense agast discrimatn sus, but crics say promot discrimatn – have bee a rallyg cry for Christian nservativ, the very votg block the Republin ernor seems termed to woo ahead of a likely 2016 printial bid. RELATED: Proposed Louisiana law protects those who oppose gay marriage Back home Louisiana, he's advotg for a more rtrictive bill: one that giv broad protectns agast state actn to those who oppose gay marriage. If passed, this law would likely ensure, for example, that the state uldn’t punish a state worker who ref to procs paperwork on a name change followg a gay marriage another state, or a police officer who didn’t want to police a same-sex weddg ceremony.

“[G]iven the changg posns of policians, judg and the public favor of same-sex marriage, along wh the potential for discrimatn agast Christian dividuals and bs that wh the shifts, I plan this legislative ssn to fight for passage of the Marriage and Conscience Act, ” Jdal wrote the op-ed, referrg to the ’s opposn to gay marriage may help him attract social nservativ, but Republins – and particularly young Republins – have begun softeng on the issue recent years. John Kasich, who’s nsirg a printial n, have also said they’d attend a gay weddg. Stt Walker, who says he’ll announce his 2016 cisn later June, said last week he’s attend a weddg receptn for a gay uple.

BOBBY JDAL: I’M HOLDG FIRM AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Photo by Gerald HerbertThe bill do not, as opponents assert, create a right to discrimate agast, or generally refe service to, gay men or lbians. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: Holdg Firm Agast Gay Marriage. "Others were a b more measured, voicg their disapproval of the lg but urgg opponents of same-sex marriage to rpect the le of law and the gay upl for whom Friday's cisn meant so much.

"However, the Supreme Court has led that state bans on gay marriage are unnstutnal, and I will rpect the Court's cisn. The chief jtice wrote a dissentg opn, sidg wh the urt's nservativ clg to affirm the marriage rights of gay upl.