Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• THE CONSTUTNAL ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• FREQUENTLY ASKED QUTNS ABOUT THE FERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT AND GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.
• WILL CALIFORNIA PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE S NSTUTN?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE GAY-MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: A DANGER TO THE CONSTUTN

THE CONSTUTNAL ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Gay marriage is a nstutnal right, Supreme…. Gay upl’ fundamental right to marry is protected by the due procs and equal protectn cls of the 14th Amendment, Jtice Anthony M.

“It means gays and lbians for the state to lock them out of a central stutn of the natn’s society, ” Kennedy wrote. The same dynamic has occurred the natn’s experienc wh the rights of gays and lbians, Kennedy said, referrg to his own opns strikg down a crimal ban on homosexual sodomy, overturng a state effort to bar lol protectns for gays, and validatg a feral law barrg feral benefs for married gay upl. Above the Law not that two of Kennedy’s prr gay-rights cisns were issued on June 26, the same date of today’s cisn fdg a nstutnal right for gays to marry.

Roberts said the arguments on behalf of gay marriage have “unniable appeal” but the Constutn do not pel stat to perm such marriag. Do the Uned Stat ernment have the nstutnal thory to legalize gay marriage? [See a llectn of polil rtoons on gay marriage.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUTNS ABOUT THE FERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT AND GAY MARRIAGE

] If the legalizatn of gay marriage were acplished by statute, Congrs uld nceivably rely on s power to regulate merce. It is more likely that gay marriage would be mandated by the Court's own terpretatns of the 14th Amendment. In a 2003 se that validated crimal penalti on homosexual sodomy, Jtice Anton Slia's bter dissent argued that the Court was settg the stage for exactly this rult.

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

[Vote now: Should gay marriage be legal natnwi?

Hodg mak gay marriage the law of the land every state.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.

In so dog, the urt went past even the arguments advanced by Solicor General Donald Verrilli and some gay-rights advot who urged the more most approach of merely strikg down bans on gay marriage unr the Equal Protectn Clse of the Constutn.

WILL CALIFORNIA PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE S NSTUTN?

The issue of whether gay upl n marry is "not of immense personal importance to me, " Slia wrote his dissent. Instead, he boldly asserted same-sex upl have the same right to marriage as everybody else -- leavg for another day the qutn of whether gays are also a spect class entled to heightened protectn. Fally, he wrote, marriage provis a “nstellatn of benefs” that the stat should not be allowed to ny their cizens simply bee they are gay.

GAY MARRIAGE

Opponents of gay marriage base on “cent and honorable relig or philosophil premis, and neher they nor their beliefs are disparaged here, " Kennedy wrote. Roberts, his dissent, said the arguments for gay marriage have “unniable appeal.

The practil impact of the cisn is that all stat mt allow gay marriag and honor same-sex marriag approved by other stat. Texas: “The Texas statute mak homosexuals unequal the ey of the law by makg particular nduct—and only that nduct—subject to crimal sanctn... The send sentence go further; would overri any existg lol and state level protectns and benefs for gay and lbian upl, or any other unmarried uple, cludg hospal visatn rights, herance rights, pensn benefs, and health surance among others.

If they are different name only, why do gays and lbians need to be “”married””?

THE GAY-MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: A DANGER TO THE CONSTUTN

While civil unns are a meangful step toward endg discrimatn agast gay and lbian upl, they fall short of te equaly by settg up a separate tegory of rights and protectns for gay and lbian upl.