Nevada GOP drops platforms agast abortns, gay marriage, endors Sandoval | Las Vegas Review-Journal

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• GUNS TO GAY MARRIAGE: SANDOVAL'S STANCE ON KEY ISSU
• NEVADA GOP DROPS PLATFORMS AGAST ABORTNS, GAY MARRIAGE, ENDORS SANDOVAL
• NEVADA ERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL WON'T FEND GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• NEVADA GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL SUPPORTS ABORTN RIGHTS AND RECENTLY CID TO DROP THE STATE’S FENSE OF A LAWSU CHALLENGG S GAY-MARRIAGE BAN. SANDOVAL IS SO POPULAR THAT NO SIGNIFINT DEM …
• NEVADA GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL SEEKS DISMISSAL OF GAY MARRIAGE BAN CHALLENGE

GUNS TO GAY MARRIAGE: SANDOVAL'S STANCE ON KEY ISSU

Jt look at his track rerd as Nevada ernor:Gay marriage: Sandoval said he personally believ marriage should be between a man and a woman, but has not actively opposed gay marriage.

NEVADA GOP DROPS PLATFORMS AGAST ABORTNS, GAY MARRIAGE, ENDORS SANDOVAL

Sce the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, Sandoval has said ’s a matter that’s been settled by the urts. Abortn: Sandoval’s stance on abortn is siar to that of gay marriage. Amid r bate, Nevada Republin Party nventneers on Saturday stripped opposn to gay marriage and abortn om the party platform and endorsed Gov.

NEVADA ERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL WON'T FEND GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Nevada Attorney General Cathere Cortez Masto recently said she uld not fend the state law bee of a 9th Circu lg a separate se that said excludg gays om jury duty is unnstutnal discrimatn. Nevada's attorney general and ernor said Monday that they won't fend the state's gay marriage ban when go before a feral appeals urt, sayg that a recent urt cisn mak the state's arguments supportg s nstutnal amendment "no longer fensible.

In a one-month span om December to January, two feral judg stck down state bans on gay marriage for the same reason, ncludg that they vlate the US Constutn's promise of equal protectn unr the Brian Sandoval, a Republin seekg re-electn this year, said he agreed wh the Democratic attorney general's actn. "Based upon the advice of the attorney general's office and their terpretatn of relevant se law, has bee clear that this se is no longer fensible urt, " Sandoval said an email to The Associated state's move was hailed by gay rights advot and civil libertarians.

"This is fantastic evince the state has regnized that equaly for all people Nevada and certaly across the untry is of utmost importance, " said Tod Story, executive director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of state's move was an about-face om January, when the attorney general's office filed a lengthy brief supportg the gay marriage ban that voters approved same-sex upl, some married for s, sued the state, argug that the law is unnstutnal.

NEVADA GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL SUPPORTS ABORTN RIGHTS AND RECENTLY CID TO DROP THE STATE’S FENSE OF A LAWSU CHALLENGG S GAY-MARRIAGE BAN. SANDOVAL IS SO POPULAR THAT NO SIGNIFINT DEM …

A feral judge Reno upheld the law 2012, sendg to the appeals urt San of the platiffs, Caren Jenks, said she was lighted by the velopment, though don't mean gay marriag are imment Las Vegas' weddg chapels.

"Tara Borelli, senr attorney wh Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocy group that reprented the upl, said Nevada's move is "a signal there's no longer any exce to fend this discrimatn.

NEVADA GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL SEEKS DISMISSAL OF GAY MARRIAGE BAN CHALLENGE

Lears wh the Coaln for the Protectn of Marriage, a nservative group that phed for Nevada's gay marriage ban, did not immediately rpond to msag seekg an ial brief supportg the law, the state argued that Nevada's nstutnal amendment fg marriage as between a man and a woman is a legimate state tert, "motivated by the state's sire to protect and perpetuate tradnal marriage. "But the same day Nevada's brief was filed, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circu issued a lg another se that changed the legal dynamics and left the attorney general's office immediately rethkg the state's urt found that potential jurors uld not be exclud om jury duty based on sexual orientatn, extendg to gays and lbians a civil right that the US Supreme Court has prevly promised only to women and racial lawmakers last year took the first step toward repealg the nstutnal ban on gay marriage.

Currently, 17 stat allow gay Denver-based 10th US Circu Court of Appeals is reviewg the s out of Utah and Oklahoma, wh heargs schled for both mid-April.

As the natnal media ntu to regularly chronicle some natnal polician "evolvg" on gay marriage, Nevada's ernor is not jog the supposedly Darwian progrsn on the issue: Brian Sandoval remas opposed to gay marriage, he told a Spanish-language terviewer an exchange posted this week on the statn's webse.