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• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS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

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

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. 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.

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

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?

LAWMAKER EXPLAS CHANG TO TENNSEE MARRIAGE BILL REIGNG GAY MARRIAGE BATE

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.

HistoryHomosexual activy Tennsee? Homosexual activy Tennsee is legal.

BILL MOVG THROUGH STATE LEGISLATURE CHALLENG GAY MARRIAGE TENNSEE

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.

GAY MARRIAGE CISN OPENS LEGAL ISSU TENNSEE

”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.

” 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.