The hight urt Massachetts l that, most s, gay and lbian partners om out of state are not wele to marry Massachetts, which has legalized gay marriage for -state partners. Neal Conan leads a discsn.
Contents:
- 15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
- LAWYER REFLECTS ON NATN'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG: 'THE CAGE HAD BEEN LIFTED'
- TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- FORMER MASS. CHIEF JTICE ON LIFE, LIBERTY AND GAY MARRIAGE
- REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS
- MASSACHETTS GAY MARRIAGE DECISN
- MASSACHETTS’ GAY MARRIAGE BILL IS NOW LAW
- GAY MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS
15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
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LAWYER REFLECTS ON NATN'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG: 'THE CAGE HAD BEEN LIFTED'
Ten years ago this week, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage. Attorney Mary Bonto, one of the key drivers of the change, is a quiet, unassumg mother of two om Mae. * massachusetts gay marriage case *
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TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
Wh s upg cisns on same-sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court fac the same qutn that Margaret Marshall faced a ago as Massachetts' chief jtice. Marshall says she had ltle ia that the cisn she wrote legalizg gay marriage would be groundbreakg. * massachusetts gay marriage case *
The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens. Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts.
FORMER MASS. CHIEF JTICE ON LIFE, LIBERTY AND GAY MARRIAGE
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“I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife. But gay uple Robert Compton and David Wilson, now happily married, n still remember how they cried when they heard the news. They me out late, and were exced to get a new start on they met 1997 at a nventn for gay fathers Boston, there was an stant nnectn.
REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS
Massachetts' hight urt last month led a 4-3 cisn that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unnstutnal and orred the state legislature to e up wh a solutn wh 180 days. The state's lg has brought the legal and polil bate over gay marriage to the natnal level.. * massachusetts gay marriage case *
They ma their vows durg a mment ceremony at Boston’s Arlgton Street Church 2000 ont of iends and 2001, the Massachetts-based gay rights anizatn Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, or GLAD, asked the pair to be a part of the Goodridge lawsu. The uple relled anti-gay-marriage protters outsi the urthoe wavg picket signs wh hateful slogans like “God hat fags.
“When you actually started to see your fay, iends, neighbors get married and live their liv, and see jt how siar our fai are to other married fai, really started to stroy the wall of myths that our opponents had tried to create around the alleged negative effects of marriage equaly, bee was there person, right ont of you, ” Silva, three years after the Supreme Court's 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage across the natn — and 15 years after Massachetts did so for s rints — two three Amerins support gay marriage, acrdg to a recent Gallup days, marriage equaly feels more or ls normal to Wilson and Compton, who will celebrate their 15th anniversary broar fight for LGBTQ equaly, however, ntu, warned Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBTQ rights group. Warbelow also poted to recent bills Kansas and Oklahoma that would give fah-based adoptn agenci the abily to ny adoptn to gay and lbian upl.
MASSACHETTS GAY MARRIAGE DECISN
In a historic opn on November 18, 2003, GLAD won a lg om the Massachetts Supreme Judicial Court that gay and lbian upl n no longer be exclud om civil marriage rights Massachetts. It had been six months sce her arguments had persuad Massachetts' hight urt to allow the natn's first legal gay marriag, but opponents were still tryg to stop the weddgs before they started.
Early Fights Barney Frank, an openly gay former ngrsman, lls Bonto "the LGBT muny's equivalent of Thurgood Marshall" — a brilliant polil strategist for the way she methodilly built the se for gay marriage, one state at a time. Almost immediately after she began workg 1990 for the gay advocy group GLAD (Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs) Boston, clients started askg Bonto to sue for gay marriage.
MASSACHETTS’ GAY MARRIAGE BILL IS NOW LAW
Bonto wh Edward Balmelli and Michael Han, platiffs the landmark se that legalized gay marriage Massachetts. ' You uldn't e 'gay people' and 'civil rights' the same sentence. " In that ntext, Bonto says, gay marriage was a pipe dream.
GAY MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS
By the late 1990s, after seeg an almost-w for gay marriage Hawaii and gettg her own almost-w Vermont (that end civil unns stead of marriage), Bonto was ready to go for Massachetts. "At the same time, I felt that simply allowg gay people to ntue to suffer was not acceptable.