Ga. gay marriage ban challenged - POLITICO

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL THE STATE OF GEIA, BUT ARE YOU ACTUALLY MARRIED?
• GEIA: IN FORMALY, BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE IS STCK
• GEIA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN FORC SAME-SEX COUPL TO REMA LEGALLY MARRIED
• FERAL SU FILED TO OVERTURN GEIA’S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• GAY-MARRIAGE BAN GETS HEARG GEIA COURT
• GEIA: GAY MARRIAGE BAN CHALLENGED
• GEIA COUPLE SU TO OVERTURN STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• SEVEN GEIANS CHALLENGG STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• LAWSU CHALLENGG GA. GAY MARRIAGE BAN FILED

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL THE STATE OF GEIA, BUT ARE YOU ACTUALLY MARRIED?

In the State of Geia, gay marriage was not regnized as legal until after the Uned Stat Supreme Court cisns of Uned Stat v. 1738C, that had enabled the State of Geia to not regnize gay marriag performed legally other stat, spe the Full Fah and Cred requirements of the Uned Stat ’s a paragraph full of historil cisns, but the bottom le is gay marriage is now legal, right?

Well, is not that simple:Y, gay marriage is legal and regnized the State of, what if you were married prr to the June 26, 2015 Obergefell cisn? It was a lbian marriage performed 2010 a state that regnized gay marriage.

GEIA: IN FORMALY, BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE IS STCK

However, the marriage was not legal the State of Geia, and Geia did not regnize any gay marriage, until after the Obergefell cisn. Possible out:If they are nsired legally married 2010, both spo would have an equable tert the 401K earngs of the earng spoe gog back to the parti are nsired legally married begng 2015, then that equable tert would only start 2015If the parti are nsired not married to each other at all, spe gay marriage otherwise now beg legal, then the non-earng spoe has no tert at all the money-earng spoe’s 401KThe answer to this qutn is not clear and will be argued the proper se. Strategilly, if you are a gay marriage and want to protect your assets a divorce, be sure your attorney is a posn to give you the bt advice based on current se law.

GEIA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN FORC SAME-SEX COUPL TO REMA LEGALLY MARRIED

If you are happily married, but were married an otherwise legal gay marriage prr to the year 2015, you may want to have a send marriage ceremony jt to nfirm that your marriage, although otherwise legal, is legally regnized the State of Shaw is founr and prciple of Shaw Law Firm PC, found 1995 and dited solely to divorce, fay law and child ctody matters that mt be addrsed and cid the state of Geia.

A gay-rights group, Lambda Legal, filed a lawsu challengg that ban. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dpe havg passed a 2004 nstutnal amendment prohibg Geia urts om regnizg same-sex marriag, some married gay and lbian upl are now fdg that Geia law obligat them to stay married – even after they have end their romantic relatnships.

When Geia's newly gay married upl return home, however, they face a legal landspe that is stuck time at 2004. Geia's urts are prohibed om grantg gay divorc, leavg many former same-sex upl legal limbo, " said Cleghorn. "It seems almost evable that Geia's gay marriage ban will eventually fall, but perhaps not as soon as gay and lbian upl would hope, " Cleghorn says.

FERAL SU FILED TO OVERTURN GEIA’S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

"Married lbian and gay upl Geia have some, but not all, of the rights of marriage.

GAY-MARRIAGE BAN GETS HEARG GEIA COURT

But Irakli Kobakhidze, Geia’s parliamentary speaker and head of the state nstutnal missn, says Geian Dream maly wants to amend the nstutn’s fn of marriage to prevent “certa groups” om stirrg up homophobic and anti-Wtern sentiment.

GEIA: GAY MARRIAGE BAN CHALLENGED

But Beka Gabadadze, a gay rights activist wh the Tbilisi-based LGBTQI Associatn Temida, says Geian Dream lawmakers are rponsible for stirrg up homophobia by mpaigng for the nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage.

GEIA COUPLE SU TO OVERTURN STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

“It’s polil homophobia self, ” Gabadadze told RFE/RL. “Geian Dream clus nservative policians who are homophobic themselv. The chairman of the parliament is aaid to adm that they are homophobic and are tryg to pass homophobic laws.

“What I n say myself, as a gay man, is that their mpaign is rercg negative stereotyp and raisg homophobic feedback, ” Gabadadze said. “When they are gog village-to-village and scribg this kd of nstutnal amendment, is creasg the level of homophobia.

SEVEN GEIANS CHALLENGG STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Gabadadze predicts the number of hate crim agast homosexuals will crease if the marriage amendment is approved, as expected, by the 115 Geian Dream lawmakers the 150-seat parliament. “It’s te that homophobia Geian society is very strong, so they are g this kd of polil homophobia to crease their polil strength the untry, " Gabadadze said. "We know that the kds of statements about gay marriage or the kds of issu appear Geian polics when is an electn perd or there is a polil crisis.

Ined, studi durg the past 15 years suggt that of all the mory groups Geia, homosexuals are unr the greatt prsure -- wh more than 80 percent of survey rponnts exprsg strong negative attus toward homosexualy.

Social rearch on homophobia Geia shows that attus toward gays are strongly fluenced by tradnal stigmas, taboos, and valu promoted by the Geian Orthodox Church.

LAWSU CHALLENGG GA. GAY MARRIAGE BAN FILED

Those studi also show that psychologil and physil vlence often acpany wispread homophobia that is backed by tradnal iologi and a Soviet legacy of nmnatn.

Gays Geia also often face domtic vlence wh their own fai when they reveal their homosexualy. As a rult, many homosexuals Geia avoid g out publicly at all -- impedg their abily to fend their own rights.