State-by-State History of Banng and Legalizg Gay Marriage

Contents:

• FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• FACTBOX: LIST OF U.S. STAT THAT PERM GAY MARRIAGE

FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE

Supreme Court was expected on Wednday to issue lgs two major s relatg to gay first three stat to allow gay marriage did so bee of urt lgs permtg , rather than through legislative actn or puttg the issue to voters to ci.

Sce mid-2009, six stat have approved gay marriage laws by passg laws state legislatur and three stat by ballot California, same-sex marriage was legal briefly 2008 followg a urt lg permtg .

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

Supreme is a look at the stat that have approved gay ORDERS* MASSACHUSETTS - In 2003, Massachetts beme the first state to allow gay marriage after s hight urt led the state’s ban vlated the nstutnal rights of same-sex upl. LEGISLATIVE ACTION* VERMONT - In 2009, Vermont beme the first state to legalize gay marriage by legislative means.

* NEW HAMPSHIRE - Two years after New Hampshire began allowg same-sex upl to enter to civil unns, the state approved gay marriage 2009. * NEW YORK - After a gay marriage bill failed New York’s Democratic-ntrolled Senate by a marg of 38 to 24 2009, advot retooled their strategy and applied prsure to lawmakers who had voted “no.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

* RHODE ISLAND - In 2013, after the state legislature and ernor approved a gay marriage bill, Rho Island beme the last of the New England stat to legalize same-sex marriage.

In a landmark cisn, the ne jtic of the US Supreme Court led that the US Constutn guarante marriage as a right for all, cludg gay and lbian upl. Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote. The rmatn below reflects the stat of gay marriage natnwi on June 25, 2015, the day prr to the Supreme Court’s cisn.

GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN

3, 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court orred the state’s 68 probate judg to stop issug marriage licens to same-sex upl, spe an earlier feral urt lg that stck down the state’s gay marriage ban, and the US Supreme Court’s cisn to allow same-sex marriag to proceed the state. Stat where gay marriage bans had been overturned, but where appeals were progrs prr to the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court lg. ARKANSAS – On May 9, 2014, Arkansas’ gay marriage ban was led unnstutnal by Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza.

The Supreme Court effectively halted gay marriag om takg place, however, by notg that while Judge Piazza’s lg had stck down both the nstutnal amendment and the state law, had not affected an addnal state law prohibg unty clerks om issug same-sex marriage licens. On May 15, 2014, Judge Piazza expand his lg to strike down the addnal law and any other measur that ma gay marriage illegal, but on May 16, 2014 the State Supreme Court spend that lg, haltg all gay marriag wh the state.

25, 2014, US District Judge Kriste Baker led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but stayed her own lg, pendg expected appeals. Heyburn II led that Kentucky’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage vlat the equal protectn clse the US Constutn. 6, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circu Court of Appeals overturned Judge Heyburn’s lg 2-1, th upholdg the state’s gay marriage ban.

GAY MARRIAGE

16, 2015, Frankl County Circu Judge Thomas Wgate led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but put his lg on hold, pendg the Supreme Court’s cisn. 6, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circu Court of Appeals overturned Judge Friedman’s lg 2-1, th upholdg the state’s gay marriage ban.

25, 2014, US District Judge Carlton Reev led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but stayed his own lg, pendg expected appeals. 2, 2015, US District Judge Joseph Bataillon clared Nebraska’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, scribg as an “unabashedly genr-specific gement of the equal rights of s cizens. 12, 2015, US District Judge Karen Schreier led South Dakota’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, statg that “Platiffs have a fundamental right to marry… South Dakota law priv them of that right solely bee they are same-sex upl and whout sufficient jtifitn.

19, 2015, two At women were married after state District Judge David Wahlberg orred an exceptn be ma to Texas’ gay marriage ban bee one of the women had been diagnosed wh ovarian ncer. Jordan Steffen and John Ingold, “Colorado Supreme Court Puts Halt to Boulr Gay Marriage Licens, ”, July 30, 2014. Jason Ste and Patrick Marley, “Court Rul agast Wisns’s, Indiana’s Gay Marriage Bans, ” Milwkee-Wisns Journal-Sentel, Sep.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken.

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.

FACTBOX: LIST OF U.S. STAT THAT PERM GAY MARRIAGE

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.