The Navajo Natn banned same-sex marriage 2005, but some hope to reverse that sce gay marriage beme legal New Mexi.
Contents:
- AMONG THE NAVAJOS, A RENEWED DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- THE SURPRISG HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NAVAJO NATN
- NAVAJO NATN LAWMAKER TRODUC BILL TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- NAVAJO NATN LAWMAKER SEEKS TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE, IGNG NEW BATE
- NAVAJO EQUALY? GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIMS OF TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY
- NAVAJO NATN LAWMAKER TRODUC BILL TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE RAILS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
AMONG THE NAVAJOS, A RENEWED DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTViotranscripttranscriptNavajo Natn’s Gay Marriage ControversyAlray Nelson is an outspoken opponent of the tribal law that bans same-sex marriage.
THE SURPRISG HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NAVAJO NATN
— Tradn reigns here on the Navajo rervatn, where the words of elrs are treated as gospel and many people still live or pray circular dwellgs lled natnal bate over gay marriage, however, is promptg some Navajos to re-exame a 2005 tribal law lled the De Marriage Act, which prohibs same-sex unns on the rervatn.
Shirley, 67, said of gay Navajos a slow, grandfatherly tone durg an terview. ”A send printial ntenr, Chris Dchene, 43, who was disqualified om nng but might be able to get back to the race, said he was "most likely" to support gay Navajo tradnalists, however, the rapid refn of marriage stat around the untry has ma the 2005 tribal law more important than ever. “It’s not for , ” Otto Tso, a Navajo legislator and medice man om the wtern edge of the rervatn, said of gay marriage.
NAVAJO NATN LAWMAKER TRODUC BILL TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
”“I do rpect gay people, ” he ntued, but as far as permtg same-sex unns, “I would fely wa on that.
NAVAJO NATN LAWMAKER SEEKS TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE, IGNG NEW BATE
”The Uned Stat Supreme Court is expected to ci this year whether stat n prohib same-sex marriag, a move wh the potential to lead to the legalizatn of gay unns all 50 stat. But the lg would not apply to the Navajo Natn, bee the untry’s 566 trib are sovereign Almeida/The New York TimLeadg the charge for gay marriage here is Alray Nelson, 29, a top ai to Mr.
NAVAJO EQUALY? GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIMS OF TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY
But some gay Navajos, he said, have not joed the aln for fear they will be gay tribal cizens say they support same-sex marriage but do not nsir marriage rights a prry, potg out that many gay Navajos suffer om dg abe and bilatg the ills, said Jeremy Yazzie, 33, who unsels gay and transgenr Navajos, is far more important.
“Everyone is worried about repealg the gay marriage act, ” Mr. At least 10 have affirmed the right of gay upl to marry unr tribal law, sometim dog so ahead of the state which the tribe is Almeida/The New York TimIn 2009, the Coquille tribe Oregon beme the first Native Amerin natn to regnize same-sex marriag, though the Oregon Constutn still prohibed such unns.
Central to the bate over same-sex marriage is the qutn of the role that gay people have played Navajo history.
NAVAJO NATN LAWMAKER TRODUC BILL TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
Several historians, cludg Jennifer Dedale, a member of the Navajo Natn Human Rights Commissn and a profsor at the Universy of New Mexi, assert that gay and transgenr people have long been part of tribal society, typilly holdg posns of great an amic paper about the De Marriage Act, she reunted a tradnal tale which First Woman and First Man argue and set up mp on separate sis of a river, each acpanied by other members of their sex.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE RAILS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
Dedale opponents of gay marriage ce their attachment to lol church — which hold powerful sway here — as a reason to keep the De Marriage Act on the books. He said he uld not image his ngregants favorg gay marriage. BTo said of gay marriage.