In Light Of High Court Arguments, What Do Gay Marriage Tell Us About Polygamy? : The Two-Way : NPR

Contents:

• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
• ALABAMA HIGH URT TOSS PETNS CHALLENGG GAY MARRIAGE
• IN LIGHT OF HIGH COURT ARGUMENTS, WHAT DO GAY MARRIAGE TELL US ABOUT POLYGAMY?
• HIGH COURT MASSACHETTS RUL GAYS HAVE RIGHT TO MARRY
• CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS
• IS THE SUPREME COURT READY TO SETTLE THE GAY MARRIAGE BATTLE?

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

FILE PHOTO: Pevian urt opens door to legally regnize same-sex uplLIMA (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated. Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay.

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CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT

Support for gay marriage at 70% for first time. A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn. Hodg cisn 2015, support for gay marriage had reached 60%.

For the First Time, a Small Majory of Republins Support Gay Marriage. This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now.

ALABAMA HIGH URT TOSS PETNS CHALLENGG GAY MARRIAGE

Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults. The groups had asked the high urt to issue an orr that Alabama would no longer issue same-sex marriage licens and would only honor licens issued by the feral ernment or by a state where gay marriage was Alabama Supreme Court also issued a certifite of judgment listg s 2015 orrs which upheld the nstutnaly of Alabama’s marriage urt fight started January 2015 when a feral judge Alabama overturned the state’s ban on same-sex state urts went along, but others balked. The Mobile County probate urt said at the time that would stop issug marriage licens to anyone, gay or straight, until further notice.

“You n go to any urthoe Alabama on Monday and get a marriage license, except for those few holdouts that aren’t issug licens to anyone, gay or straight, ” Cohen said he wished that the urt’s wordg was stronger and cricized state high urt jtic who dissented agast the Godey, executive director of Alabama Cizens Actn Program, said the group might turn to the state legislature for laws that would protect judg and clerks om havg to perform same-sex unns agast their relig nvictns. In Light Of High Court Arguments, What Do Gay Marriage Tell Us About Polygamy? One of the more tertg exchang to emerge om the Supreme Court heargs on gay marriage this week, wasn't about the sex, stead was when Jtice Sonia Sotomayor asked a qutn about polygamy.

Sotomayor asked Ted Olson, the lawyer askg the urt to repeal California's ban on gay marriage, that if he was right and "marriage is a fundamental right" uld any state rtrictns ever exist. In other words, do clarg gay marriage a civil right, pave the way to legalizatn of, say, polygamy?

IN LIGHT OF HIGH COURT ARGUMENTS, WHAT DO GAY MARRIAGE TELL US ABOUT POLYGAMY?

If prohibs gay and lbian cizens om gettg married, is prohibg their exercise of a right based upon their stat. Turley said that polygamy is now where gay marriage was a ago, when Supreme Court cid Lawrence v. 18, 2003 The hight urt Massachetts led today that gay and lbian upl have the right to marry unr the state nstutn, emphatilly statg that the Commonwealth had failed to intify any nstutnal reasons why they uld not wed.

HIGH COURT MASSACHETTS RUL GAYS HAVE RIGHT TO MARRY

The lg by the Supreme Judicial Court stopped short of immediately allowg marriage licens to be issued to the seven gay upl who sued the state Department of Public Health 2001 after their requts for marriage licens were nied. Gay advocy groups and some Massachetts legal anizatns praised the cisn, while opponents of same-sex marriage nounced the lg, wh some assertg that unrsred why the Uned Stat Constutn need to be amend to fe marriage. While today's lg fell somewhat short of what the platiffs were seekg, appeared neverthels to be a victory for gay rights advot, given the forceful language of the opn.

That proposal has been endorsed by the Speaker of the Hoe, Tom Fneran of Boston, but other factns wh the Legislature support eher gay marriage or civil unns between people of the same sex. In the terim, some legal analysts said, gay upl would be granted marriage licens.

CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS

Reprents a landmark civil rights victory, sayg that a pervasive and tolerable source of discrimatn agast gay people clearly vlat our state nstutn, " said Renée M.

Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, a natnal nonprof anizatn dited to marriage equaly for same-sex upl, said was "a wonrful day for the fai who will now be able to take on the protectns and the rponsibili of civil marriage, and for the untry, bee will see that fai are helped and no one is hurt when gay upl are allowed to marry. "While we are certaly relieved that the urt stopped short of grantg marriage licens to the homosexual upl mandg them, is excable for this urt to force the state Legislature to `fix' s state nstutn to make port wh the pro-homosexual agenda of four urt jtic, " the uncil's print, Tony Perks, said a statement. Wh the printial mpaign well unr way, and the ccial New Hampshire primary late January, Whe Hoe aspirants will be unr creasg prsure to make their views on gay marriage clear.

IS THE SUPREME COURT READY TO SETTLE THE GAY MARRIAGE BATTLE?

Senator Bill Frist of Tennsee, the Republin majory lear, predicted that Congrs would addrs the implitns of the Massachetts lg and how relat to a 1996 feral law, the Defense of Marriage Act, which f marriage as a unn between man and woman and bars gay upl om enjoyg many feral rights, like Social Secury benefs paid to a survivg partner. " A lg 1999 by the Vermont Supreme Court, later passed by the state Legislature, approved the creatn of civil unns that give gay upl that state many of the same benefs of marriage.