Gay marriage is legal 32 US stat – but what about the other 18? | US polics | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 32 US STAT – BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 18?
• MAP: WHICH STAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
• WHICH RED STAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE — AND WHICH BLUE STAT STILL DON’T
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
• SUPREME COURT DELIVERS TAC W TO GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 32 US STAT – BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 18?

In those vered by the jurisdictns of appeal urts that have led favor of gay marriage, ’s jt a matter of time before the bans fall. Experts agree that if an appeals urt were to le favor of a gay marriage ban, settg up a nflict between jurisdictns, prsure would crease on the jtic to take up a se. Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi.

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 lg effectively legalized gay marriage every state.

MAP: WHICH STAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?

Where Is Gay Marriage Legal the US? The current stat of gay marriage across the US.

Followg the Supreme Court's announcement on Monday that wouldn't hear appeals on s om several stat that sought to mata bans on gay marriage, the polarized map of where gay marriage is and isn't legal got slightly more are now 21 stat that voted for Barack Obama 2012 and allow same-sex marriag -- and 21 stat that backed Mt Romney and don't. Of the eight that rema, three are Romney stat that, as of Monday, have legal gay marriage.

WHICH RED STAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE — AND WHICH BLUE STAT STILL DON’T

Of urse more liberal stat allow gay marriage! But most of the stat where gay marriage is legal were phed to that lumn by judicial cisns -- not legislative seems likely, though, that the spl will soon be outdated.

Monday's cisn uld brg gay marriage to six more stat very quickly, at which pot the red-blue divi will ntue to cmble. Stat & DC Have Legal Gay Marriage.

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

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. Washgton, DC legalized gay marriage on Mar. 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. Arkansas had prevly banned gay marriage by both state law and voter-approved nstutnal amendment. 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.

SUPREME COURT DELIVERS TAC W TO GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

21, 2014, a feral judge led Michigan’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal. 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.

Louis Circu Judge Rex Burlison led that the state’s gay marriage ban is unnstutnal. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

26, 2014, a feral judge led Texas’ gay marriage ban unnstutnal. 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. Associated Prs, “Appeals Court Halts Gay Marriag Alaska, ”, Oct.