Idaho's gay marriage ban remas state nstutn | AP News

Contents:

• SUPREME COURT RUL GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL IN IDAHO, ALL OTHER STAT
• GAY MARRIAGE
• WHERE WILL IDAHO’S NEXT ERNOR STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE, RELIG RIGHTS?
• GAY MARRIAGE BANS IDAHO, NEVADA STCK DOWN
• IDAHO’S GAY MARRIAGE BAN REMAS STATE NSTUTN

SUPREME COURT RUL GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL IN IDAHO, ALL OTHER STAT

The urt's lg on Friday means the remag 14 stat, the South and Midwt, will have to stop enforcg their bans on same-sex oute is the culmatn of two s of Supreme Court ligatn over marriage, and gay rights generally. Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majory opn, jt as he did the urt's prev three major gay rights s datg back to Supreme Court lg that grants same-sex upl the right to marry natnwi on a date wh legal prev gay-rights lgs by the high urt also me on June 26. In 2003, the urt issued s lg the se Lawrence vers Texas, strikg down state laws that ma gay sex a on the same date 2013, stck down part of the feral anti-gay marriage law the se U.

GAY MARRIAGE

Vers Supreme Court's cisn affirmg the right to gay marriage me on a 5-4 his majory opn, Kennedy wr that "No unn is more profound than marriage.

" Chief Jtice John Roberts and Jtic Anton Slia, Samuel Alo and Clarence Thomas are the cisn Uned Stat vers Wdsor do not addrs the validy of state marriage bans, but urts across the untry, wh few exceptns, have said logic would pel them to validate state laws that prohibed gay and lbian upl om number of stat allowg same-sex marriage has grown rapidly. "In a tweet, Obama says gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, "jt like everyone else.

WHERE WILL IDAHO’S NEXT ERNOR STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE, RELIG RIGHTS?

Nancy Pelosi says the lg "unequivolly affirmed that equal jtice unr the law means marriage equaly" for gay, lbian, bi-sexual and transgenr adds, "This cisn is about creatg a future where lovg, mted fai are able to live wh digny. Several gay upl have received marriage licens Atlanta sce the cisn me out.

So says urt clerk Jam Travis County, Texas, Gena Dawson and Charlotte Rutherford were the first same-sex uple the state to receive a marriage license, wh two hours of the well, a same-sex marriage license has been issued Arkansas, another state that banned gay marriage until the Supreme Court weighed . 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.

GAY MARRIAGE BANS IDAHO, NEVADA STCK DOWN

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.

IDAHO’S GAY MARRIAGE BAN REMAS STATE NSTUTN

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. Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry.

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.