Supreme Court Decisn: Gay Marriage is Legal All 50 Stat - Ellsworth Fay Law

Contents:

• COMMEMORATG THE SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE CISN 5 YEARS LATER
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
• THE FIRST COUNTRI TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT DECISN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT

COMMEMORATG THE SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE CISN 5 YEARS LATER

PHOENIX - Same-sex marriage has bee legal Arizona after the state's nservative attorney general said Friday that he wouldn't challenge a feral urt cisn that cleared the way for same-sex unns the announcement prompted gay upl Phoenix to immediately beg lg up at the downtown urthoe to apply for marriage licens. There is no wag perd Arizona that would lay Arizona lg bookends two weeks of nonstop urt cisns across the natn, wh judg strikg down gay marriage bans and nservative state officials phg back a stggle that has creasgly gone favor of gay marriage supporters. In the Wt, for example, upl already have tied the knot Alaska, Idaho and Nevada, makg Montana the lone state unr the jurisdictn of the 9th Circu Court where same-sex upl have not legally feral ernment Friday announced that will regnize same-sex marriag seven new stat and extend feral benefs to those upl, which brgs the total number of stat where gay and lbian unns have feral regnn to 26, pl the District of Columbia.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

The Rpect for Marriage Act, as is lled, won Senate approval last legislatn won the support of LGBT advot as well as a number of relig anizatns and enti cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, though many Amerin relig nservativ still oppose gay marriage as unter to biblil is narrowly wrten to act as a limed backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, known as Obergefell v. Friday, the natn remember the historic South Bend Mayor and one of the first openly gay printial ndidat, Pete Buttigieg, tweeted, "Five years ago today, by the grace of a sgle vote on the Supreme Court, the eedom to marry beme real for lns of . Kirsten Gillibrand wrote on Karger, the first openly gay major-party printial ndidate who ran for the Republin nomatn the 2012 printial electn, lled platiff Jim Obergefell a "hero" on Jean Kg, pro-tennis player turned activist, is now nsired to be a femist and lbian in.

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Reporters wrote about what Fortunato and Schwandt lled a holy unn, which was ntroversial not bee there was talk of legalizg gay marriage but bee the two men publicly ask for -- and were nied -- the blsg of the Epispal Church. "The New York State Court of Appeals clar that a lbian or gay uple livg together for a least ten years n be nsired a fay for purpos of rent ntrol protectn, the first time a state's hight urt l that a gay uple n be lled a fay...

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

The California Bar Associatn urg that lbian and gay marriage be legally regnized and Seattle, San Francis and other ci, 'partners' regulatns extendg certa protectns and rights to unmarried upl, straight and gay, are adopted.

"Jt as Hawaii's high urt seemed poised to allow same-sex marriag, gay activists have seen their visns of legal weddgs on the beach of Mi disappear as voters approved Constutnal Amendment 2, givg the legislature power to 'rerve marriage to oppose-sex upl.

THE FIRST COUNTRI TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

"Rabbis belongg to the biggt and most liberal branch of Judaism the Uned Stat have voted to regnise the partnerships of gay and lbian Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanctn relig ceremoni for same-sex Print of the Conference, Rabbi Charl Kroloff, said that gay and lbian people served the regnn and rpect due to people created the image of God. The upl are barred om adoptg children overseas bee of potential objectns om untri that do not accept gay the new legislatn, all referenc to genr laws erng matrimony and adoptn will be leted favor of the ntral-genr term, partner. "Before the lg [Supreme Court lg that laws makg gay sex a crime were unnstutnal], supporters the Hoe [US Hoe of Reprentativ] of a nstutnal amendment that would more formally rtrict marriage to the unn of a man and a woman were havg trouble attractg sponsors.

"A unty clerk issued marriage licens Friday to at least 15 gay upl, some of whom then exchanged vows outsi the urthoe, as more same-sex upl led up for a chance to tie the Mexi law f marriage as a ntract between ntractg parti but do not mentn genr. 24, 2004] while makg his most revealg public ments so far about the sexual orientatn of his gay his posn on the subject at a town hall meetg here, Cheney replied: 'Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so 's an issue that our fay is very faiar wh....

SUPREME COURT DECISN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT

'In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ' he wrote, 'the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl. Proposn 8 was the most expensive proposn on any ballot the natn this year, wh more than $74 ln spent by both measure's most fervent proponents believed that nothg ls than the future of tradnal fai was at stake, while opponents believed that they were fightg for the fundamental right of gay people to be treated equally unr the years ago, Californians voted 61% to fe marriage as beg only between a man and a California Supreme Court overturned that measure, Proposn 22, s May 15 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage on the grounds that the state Constutn required equal treatment of gay and lbian upl.