Tennsee's anti-gay marriage bill sparks bipartisan cricism

Contents:

• TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• IS TENNSEE'S RULG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE A SETBACK FOR THE CSE?
• LAWMAKER EXPLAS CHANG TO TENNSEE MARRIAGE BILL REIGNG GAY MARRIAGE BATE
• BILL MOVG THROUGH STATE LEGISLATURE CHALLENG GAY MARRIAGE TENNSEE
• GAY MARRIAGE CISN OPENS LEGAL ISSU TENNSEE

TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM

Supporters argue the measure is need to give relig officials, upl and others opposed to gay marriage an optn that wouldn’t nflict wh their beliefs. Crics say ’s a liberate effort to circumvent the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriage and uld lead to stly legal battl. “This argument that is gog to set up two separate paths to marriage is blatantly unnstutnal vlatn of the Obergefell cisn, which is the law of the land, ” said attorney Abby Rubenfeld, who 2013 helped lead the challenge to Tennsee’s ban on same-sex su, which was filed by Rubenfeld, was clud the SCOTUS se that eventually legalized gay marriage 2015.

Crics say ’s a liberate effort to circumvent the Supreme Court‘s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriage and uld lead to stly legal battl. The su, which was filed by Rubenfeld, was clud the SCOTUS se that eventually legalized gay marriage 2015. 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.

Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else. 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.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

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. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men.

He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs. "Jtice Alo asked, well then why not marry four gay men together? The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.

Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. Ernment to provi the same benefs to both gay and heterosexual upl.

IS TENNSEE'S RULG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE A SETBACK FOR THE CSE?

HistoryHomosexual activy Tennsee? Homosexual activy Tennsee is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Tennsee?

Adam Ebb, the first openly gay lawmaker the state’s General Assembly, troduced the bill, which was one of four pro-LGBTQ measur passed the state this month. Indiana is one of those stat, though an attempt to remove s gay marriage ban was unsuccsful last month the Republin-ntrolled state Legislature.

”Five years after the Supreme Court had s say on the issue, same-sex marriage remas a polilly ntent issue, and LGBTQ advot ntue to battle urtrooms and stateho to ensure gay upl n exercise their right to marry. History of state-level gay marriage bansStat have two typ of bans on same-sex marriage: statutory and nstutnal. The first one began the 1970s, when gay upl would apply for marriage licens and many state judg at the time led that the unns were not prohibed.

LAWMAKER EXPLAS CHANG TO TENNSEE MARRIAGE BILL REIGNG GAY MARRIAGE BATE

” The “mi-DOMAs, ” he noted, banned gay marriage fay s and state law, not the 1998, Hawaii beme the first state to pass a nstutnal amendment specifilly targetg same-sex marriage.

Ultimately, 30 more stat adopted nstutnal amendments prohibg gay marriage. In some s, there is a lack of polil willgns to remove them, while others, the labor-tensive removal procs mak them a low Virgia, for example, while the two statutory laws banng same-sex marriage have been repealed, the state’s 2006 nstutnal amendment prohibg gay unns remas for the time beg. Circu Court of Appeals found that, although Davis was immune om beg sued as a unty official, she uld be sued her dividual pacy for refg to ply wh the early 2016, Roy Moore, then the chief jtice of the Alabama Supreme Court, prohibed probate judg the state om issug marriage licens to gay upl.

BILL MOVG THROUGH STATE LEGISLATURE CHALLENG GAY MARRIAGE TENNSEE

Senate seat om Alabama, was spend om his judicial duti September 2016 over his gay marriage orr. "We believe judg reta their right to relig liberty when they take the bench, " Paxton’s spokperson, Marc Rylanr, said a statement at the matrimonySce the legalizatn of same-sex marriage ferally, hundreds of state bills have been troduced that poke hol gay marriage var ways. Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the U.

”How safe is gay marriage? In addn, public opn has shifted strongly favor of same-sex marriage, wh a 2019 Gallup poll fdg 63 percent of Amerins approve of such, is gay marriage safe? And while Tmp claimed to be a “real iend” to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people durg the 2016 mpaign, Kadi said his admistratn is “no ally to the LGBTQ muny.

GAY MARRIAGE CISN OPENS LEGAL ISSU TENNSEE

Lefteris Parakis/APThe great streak of urt victori for gay marriage was broken on Tuday: A state urt Kgston, Tennsee, beme the first to uphold a state ban on gay marriage sce the Supreme Court’s cisn last year Uned Stat v. )More than two dozen urts the 14 months sce Wdsor have stck down laws agast gay marriage. But is worth nsirg as wdow to the arguments of gay-marriage through that lens, the important thg about Simmons’s opn is s even tone.

That level of outrage is jtified only if opposn to gay marriage is moral leprosy, like whe supremacy or Holot nial.

But is all opposn to gay marriage spired by hate? ” Anti-gay measur like §3 of DOMA, Kennedy has wrten, are adopted for the sole purpose of makg gays ls than equal, and th are unnstutnal.