Contents:
- KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED
- TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
- TENNSEE LAWMAKERS NSIR BILL TO SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG
- ALL TN UNTI READY TO ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS
KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED
”At that meetg, Michael Rady, a gay Nashville man who’s planng to marry his partner, said the bill would be a “jumbo-sized green light for any unty clerk to ny a marriage license to a uple based on their race, genr, or relign.
TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
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“This argument that is gog to set up two separate paths to marriage is blatantly unnstutnal vlatn of the Obergefell cisn, which is the law of the land, ” said attorney Abby Rubenfeld, who 2013 helped lead the challenge to Tennsee’s ban on same-sex su, which was filed by Rubenfeld, was clud the SCOTUS se that eventually legalized gay marriage 2015. " Davis "may have been one of the first victims" of the cisn, "but she will not be the last, " wrote Clarence Thomas for himself and Samuel the marriage lg, gay upl sued Davis for refg to issue them marriage licens, and she was briefly jailed for ntempt when she ntued to refe after a urt orred her to grant them.
TENNSEE LAWMAKERS NSIR BILL TO SEPARATE GAY AND STRAIGHT MARRIAG
"But lawyers for the gay upl said the issue was much more narrow — whether ernment officials have immuny when they act a way that they know vlat the law.
“It is appallg that five years after the historic [gay marriage lg], two jtic still nsir same-sex upl ls worthy of marriage than other upl, " said Jam Esseks, director of the group’s LGBT and HIV Project. ”Abby Rubenfeld, a Nashville civil rights attorney workg to end Tennsee’s gay marriage ban, told HuffPost that the bill is “a dranian attempt to get around the Obergefell le. “I already have our legal team together and ready to challenge this discrimatory law – and when we w and llect our fe will aga waste lns taxpayers funds, ” she Leatherwood’s proposal would not change whether gay upl uld marry Tennsee—they still uld— would enforce a state-sanctned divisn between straight marriage and gay marriage based on the relig beliefs of some people.
ALL TN UNTI READY TO ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS
This story was updated Tuday of Tennsee's unty clerks are ready to or are already issug marriage licens to same-sex upl, acrdg to unty staffers and gay marriage all 95 unti the Volunteer State are reportedly followg the Friday lg of the U.