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Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- FERALISM TODAY: GAY MARRIAGE THE STAT
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS BE A STATE OR FERAL LAW?
GAY MARRIAGE
* gay marriage state vs federal *
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WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
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.
FERALISM TODAY: GAY MARRIAGE THE STAT
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.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
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.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS BE A STATE OR FERAL LAW?
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Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law.
Many gay rights advot had helped raise money for Obama’s mpaign hopg he would brg about the equaly they’re searchg for. He had stated that “Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law — for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as well.