Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• HAS THE TIME E FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE UK?
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE BATE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT

Tennsee, like North Carola, still has a state ban on gay marriage. Another venue refed explicly on the grounds that the owner did not support gay marriage.

Coupl celebratg the supreme urt cisn to allow gay marriage 2015. It immediately led to scen of jubilatn om ast to ast, as mpaigners, policians and everyday people – gay, straight and -between – hailed “a victory of love” lg, which Jtice Anthony Kennedy st the cidg vote, means the number of stat where gay marriage is legal will rise – albe after some stallg – om 37 to 50.

Photograph: Evan Golub/Demotix/CorbisThe crowd outsi the urt – ed, across the untry – epted joy after the lg was hand down, wh many longtime mpaigners cryg tears of joy and embracg their of “Love has won” reverberated among the hundreds gathered below the urt steps and across the street outsi the US Capol, as rabow flags tertwed wh the Amerin the crowd was California reprentative Mark Takano, an openly gay member of Congrs who scribed beg at the scene as both “profound and poted”.

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

“The arc of history is que clear that the stggle for LGBT equaly is part of our civil rights, ” Takano sex marriage discrimatnJudd Proctor, a 65-year-old rint of Silver Sprg, Maryland, said he never thought he would live to see the day that gay marriage would be a nstutnal right. Photograph: Eric Gay/APRandy Johnson, a platiff one of the ncurrent s brought om Kentucky before the urt wh his partner Pl Campn, said he still had goosebumps, hours after their 20-year-old son had texted them two words: “We won. Kathie DeNobriga, the mayor of Atlanta suburb Pe Lake who married her long-term partner out of state last year as one of the few openly gay policians the Amerin south, lled the urt lg “a victory of love opposn to fear”.

HAS THE TIME E FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE UK?

”Legal same-sex weddgs were takg place for the first time on Friday across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennsee, even as the attorneys general Texas and Mississippi said marriag uld not take place attorney general Ken Paxton issued a long statement suggtg he would attempt to fight the legalisatn of gay marriage by assertg the “relig liberti” of clerks and officials. He subsequently clarified that his office “is certaly not standg the way of the supreme urt’s cisn” gay upl waed at the state val rerds office New Orleans to get their marriage licens. ”But the five jtic the majory argued that privg them of marriage equaly “serve[d] to disrpect and subordate” gay and lbian people.

”The natn’s hight tribunal last weighed marriage equaly 2012, wh challeng to California’s effective ban on same-sex marriag, known as Proposn 8, and a key provisn of the feral Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) jtic then led favor of marriage equaly proponents, but ducked the qutn of whether gay marriage was a nstutnal right.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

“It is hard for me to see now that any urt, anywhere, state or feral, uld possibly tolerate discrimatn agast gay people on any basis. Church of England prits will be permted to bls the civil marriag of same-sex upl a profound shift the church’s stance on homosexualy after a historic vote by s erng first blsgs for gay upl uld happen this summer. ”Nigel Pietroni, the chair of the Campaign for Equal Marriage the C of E, said the cisn “falls short of what we ultimately believe is the only oute for radil cln – equal marriage for all people”, but was “a small step forward” gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The offer of blsgs to same-sex partners is an sult.

The puty lear of the Liberal Democrats has said that gay upl are likely to ga full rights to marriage unr the current Parliament.

GAY MARRIAGE BATE

This would reprent a revolutn for gay rights, but there is still a long way to go before same-sex upl achieve full rights to marriage as they are arguably entled to unr human rights Hugh MP has told, a qutn and answer webse, that Liberal Democrat MPs would be nsulted on the rights of gay upl. He said "I don't know the answer bee we haven't had the discsn", but that "I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't all be able to support what Nick Clegg said, which is that would be appropriate Bra 2010-11 for there to be the abily to have civil marriage for straight people and gay people equally.

As a mentator on Pk News put , they "were a fantastic tone for gays and lbians but is clear now they are not good enough. Ined, the urts have recent tim sought to enforce gay rights. As Lord Rodger said a recent Supreme Court judgment, which cricised the Government's policy of sendg back gay asylum seekers to stat where they would be persecuted, "gay men are to be as ee as their straight equivalents the society ncerned to live their liv the way that is natural to them as gay men" (he also pated an tertg picture of gay life Bra volvg Kylie ncerts and exotic cktails) is unlikely, however, that judg n be relied upon to step up on this issue light of the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights Schalk and Kopf v.

Clearly, the European Court of Human Rights nsirs that gay marriage falls wh the 'marg of appreciatn' which stat sometim have to set their own policy agenda relatn to ntroversial social if a challenge to the existg law on human rights grounds did succeed the UK urts, the ernment would not be bound to change the law.

GAY MARRIAGE

On a ntroversial issue such as gay marriage, the backg of Parliament will be sential to change the stat quo; any se the Supreme Court particular is unlikely to be willg to place self the polil limelight as s US equivalent has done by makg ntroversial cisns on social will of ParliamentSo will Parliament, and specifilly the aln ernment, seek to alter the law? However, a roadblock to reform may ultimately e om relig thori, many of whom are agast full gay marriage. Lynne Featherstone, the Equali mister, has said an answer to a Parliamentary qutn that gay upl uld now e "relig readgs, mic and symbols" civil partnership ceremoni, further dissolvg the already tenuo distctn between civil marriage and civil aln ernment is clearly ncerned over the reactn to potential reforms om the relig muny, and is seekg to volve them any future cisns.

IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE

"To that end, Simon Hugh was keen to make clear that relig muni would not be forced to accept gay marriage, statg that the civil law "is different of urse om fah ceremoni which are matters for the fah muni – for the Christian Church or the Mlim muny – and they have to ci what regnn they want to give.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

And wh public opn softeng after five years of civil partnerships wh no apolyptic rults, is possible that the time for gay marriage the UK might fally have e. Roberts has sce voted several tim support of the regnn of gay marriage and agast the discrimatn of same-sex 2020, when the Supreme Court led that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ Amerins om workplace discrimatn, the nservative jtice was among the 6 to 3 same year, the Supreme Court apparently unanimoly rejected an appeal om a former Kentucky unty clerk who refed to provi marriage licens to same-sex upl based on her relig beliefs Miller v. But all Amerins, whatever their thkg on that issue, should worry about what the majory's claim of power portends, " Alo wrote, nouncg that all those who disagreed wh gay marriage ran the risk of "beg labeled as bigots.