Mn. Senate Readi For Gay Marriage Vote - CBS Mnota

Contents:

• MNOTA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE: GOV. MARK DAYTON SIGNS BILL INTO LAW
• THE NEW GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL
• MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE SET IN STATE LEGISLATURE
• MNEAPOLIS CHURCH CELEBRAT GAY MARRIAGE BILL WH RABOW MUNN BREAD
• MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE: HOE TO VOTE ON BILL THURSDAY
• MNOTA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE: GOV. MARK DAYTON SIGNS BILL INTO LAW
• THE NEW GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL
• MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE SET IN STATE LEGISLATURE
• MNEAPOLIS CHURCH CELEBRAT GAY MARRIAGE BILL WH RABOW MUNN BREAD
• MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE: HOE TO VOTE ON BILL THURSDAY

MNOTA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE: GOV. MARK DAYTON SIGNS BILL INTO LAW

The reporter wanted to know if legalizg gay marriage was next. Carlbom, who led the anti-amendment mpaign Mnotans Uned for All Fai, had spent all year ignorg allegatns om gay marriage opponents that legalizatn would immediately follow if the amendment was feated.

One later, the legacy of the ph to legalize gay marriage n be seen the more than 10, 000 married same-sex upl livg Mnota. Stt Dibble, DFL-Mneapolis, the only openly gay member of the state Senate at the time, didn't thk he would see legal same-sex marriage Mnota his lifetime.

Vio of the news nference spread wily and is still available on YouTube as "Cute kids upstage gay marriage news nference. In April, a group of mostly Republins the Mnota Hoe offered an alternative to legalizg same-sex marriag: allow gay upl to enter to civil unns. The ph for same-sex marriage was a rapid turnabout om jt six months ago, when same-sex marriage supporters had to mobilize to turn back a proposed nstutnal amendment that would have banned gay marriage.

THE NEW GAY MARRIAGE BILL

The vote, on the heels of a vote last week the Hoe, brgs to a close a of bate over marriage that has echoed through the Capol, brgg thoands of iends and fo of gay marriage to s marbled dome to exprs their eply held feelgs. The Supreme Court's cisn Friday allowg same-sex marriage natnwi likely won't change hearts and mds Mnota, which legalized gay marriage 2013 after an tense polil battle.

Gay marriage arrived the Bible Belt on Saturday, begng wh two women who had traveled overnight to ensure they'd be first le. Same-sex upl received nearly 1 3 marriage licens issued Mnota sce they were allowed to wed, The Associated Prs found a statewi survey of the first month's impact of the new gay marriage law.

Gays and lbians who live and work Mnota's borr muni know they mt al wh some practil reali of love and the law. Photos: Gay ND uple celebrate weddg vows Moorhead. Stt Dibble, who are both openly gay.

MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

" The first lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) upl will be allowed to tie the knot when the law tak effect on Aug. Before You GoGay Marriage In The Uned StatPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

Corro: My first qutn is, do the untry need a natnal law guaranteeg the right to gay marriage? (AP) -- Mnota's Senate is schled to bate and vote Monday on a bill to add the state to the growg list of those that allow gay marriage.

MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL

A look at how the bill works, who uld affect, what got the state got to this pot, and where Mnota falls spread of gay marriage around the untry and worldwi.

If pass, gay upl uld get married Mnota begng on Aug.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE SET IN STATE LEGISLATURE

1 weddg for a gay uple. By 2004, gay marriage opponents were phg for more.

MNEAPOLIS CHURCH CELEBRAT GAY MARRIAGE BILL WH RABOW MUNN BREAD

Michele Bachmann, then a state senator, lnched a multi-year effort to get the Legislature to put a nstutnal amendment before voters statewi that would have strengthened Mnota's existg law agast gay marriage by addg to the state nstutn.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE: HOE TO VOTE ON BILL THURSDAY

A former Senate Democratic lear, Dean Johnson of Willmar, even lost his legislative seat after Republins highlighted his repeated thwartg of the ph agast gay marriage.

But Republins fally had full ntrol of the Legislature 2011, and they promptly moved the nstutnal gay marriage ban to the 2012 statewi ballot. The amendment failed on an Electn Day that also saw Democrats retake full ntrol of the Legislature, and the mpaign that formed to feat the amendment quickly turned s nsirable rourc to phg legal gay marriage at the Capol.

MNOTA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE: GOV. MARK DAYTON SIGNS BILL INTO LAW

A recent analysis of the gay marriage bill by Mnota Management and Budget predicted that jt over half those upl, or about 5, 200, would be married the first year after the bill is enacted. That analysis also anticipated that eventually, some gay upl will get divorced too.

It predicted 86 divorce filgs by gay upl 2015 and siar numbers ensug years.

Legal gay marriage is expected to slightly raise sts for state employee health surance programs, but also raise a small amount om a spike the sale of marriage licens. State to legalize gay marriage, and the first the Midwt to do so by legislative vote.

THE NEW GAY MARRIAGE BILL

The other stat where gay marriage is legal are Connecticut, Iowa (due to a 2009 urt lg), Mae, Maryland, Massachetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washgton. In addn, a handful of stat stop short of gay marriage but allow civil unns between gay upl.

MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

Supreme Court heard arguments on challeng to both a feral law prohibg gay marriage and to the 2008 California referendum that overturned that state's law allowg gay marriage. A lg is expected this summer, and uld eher hasten or slow down the spread of legal gay marriage the U. Gay marriage has also been spreadg worldwi recent years.

A pivotal vote Thursday posned Mnota to bee the 12th state the untry to allow gay marriag and the first the midwt to pass such a law out of s 75-59 Hoe vote was a cril step for the measure, which would allow same-sex weddgs begng this summer. "My fay knew first-hand that same-sex upl pay our tax, we vote, we serve the ary, we take re of our kids and our elrs and we n bs Mnota, " said the bill's sponsor, Karen Clark, a Mneapolis Democrat who is gay. "I do believe God, and I believe God already created the perfect way to have a fay, " Komar gay marriage supporters also boasted fah lears their ranks.

"Eleven other stat allow gay marriag — cludg Rho Island and Delaware, which approved laws the past week. Mnota would be the first state the Midwt to pass the measure out of the allows gay marriag bee of a 2009 urt lg.

MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL

Lears Illois — the only midwtern state other than Mnota wh a Democratic-led statehoe — say that state is close to havg the vot to approve a law most other stat surroundg Mnota have nstutnal bans agast same-sex weddgs, so the change might not spread to the natn's heartland nearly as quickly as has on the asts and New Mnota ph for gay marriage grew out of last fall's succsful mpaign to feat a nstutnal amendment that would have banned .

Mnota beme the first state to turn back such an amendment after more than two dozen stat had passed one over more than a same electn put Democrats full ntrol of state ernment for the first time more than two s, a perfect scenar for gay marriage supporters to swiftly pursue legalizatn. They tapped the cross-sectn of cizens, bs, church and others who spoke out agast the amendment and staged ralli as part of a lobbyg effort to build bill cleared mte both chambers March, and wh a succsn of natnal polls showg opposn to gay marriage fallg away natnally. "As Amerins have had a chance to really talk about who gay people are and why marriage matters, and thk about their personal valu of fairns, we have grown to a signifint natnal majory favor of the eedom to marry, " said Evan Wolfson, founr and print of the natnal gay rights group Freedom to November, voters Mae, Maryland and Washgton state approved same-sex marriage at the same time that Mnota voters rejected a ballot proposal to put a ban on same-sex marriage the state then, advot of same-sex marriage had never been succsful at the ballot box, and voters more than two dozen stat had approved nstutnal amendments fg marriage as a unn between a man and a Island on May 2 beme the last of the six New England stat to approve same-sex marriage.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE SET IN STATE LEGISLATURE

The Illois Senate approved a gay marriage bill on Valente's Day Febary, but the measure has not been voted on the full Hoe. HistoryHomosexual activy Mnota?

Homosexual activy Mnota 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 Mnota?

Mnota's legalizatn of gay marriage has one church feelg pretty happy. Jay Bakker thought the bread - and the state's embrace of gay rights - tasted "kd of sweet.

MNEAPOLIS CHURCH CELEBRAT GAY MARRIAGE BILL WH RABOW MUNN BREAD

"The lorful nod to gay rights was baked up early Sunday morng by photojournalist Courtney Perry.

"But amid the cheers, Perry noticed that there were also many the crowd holdg up anti-gay marriage said he's received plenty of backlash om nservative social media ers after news about his rabow munn bread spread onle. "I thk Christ's table is very clive, " Bakker Stumme (left) kiss his hband Kyle Hanson the State Capol rotunda immediately after the news that the Mnota Senate passed a bill makg Mnota the 12th state the untry to allow gay marriage.

"I'm not gog to say publicly that I'm gog to do a gay marriage, " Lynn said. Lockhart said 50 Uned Methodist misters and lay people met recently Richfield, Mn., to discs how they will handle requts om gay and lbian upl who wish to marry. Pl, the Mnota Hoe will vote on a bill that would legalize gay marriage, pendg passage the state Senate, and Gov.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE: HOE TO VOTE ON BILL THURSDAY

” The amendment means that both gay and straight marriag are “civil marriag, ” which don’t make gay marriage any ls legimate or really change anythg. "The amendment is meant to unrle that the bill won’t impge on relig eedom and to remd Republins and the most vol anti-gay marriage group, Mnota for Marriage, that the Bible don’t hold water a urthoe — a ncept that seems curly difficult for them to addn to bee-God-says-so arguments along wh the charge that legal marriage will enable gays to succeed their missn to stroy the Amerin fay, the opposn ntends that the state should be focg on other, more prsg matters, namely jobs and the marriage was on the choppg block Mnota jt six months ago, when voters feated a proposn to ban gay marriage 47% to 52%.

That vote marked a ti change Mnota polics: now an timated 51% of the populatn support gay marriage, and the Hoe, Senate, and Governor are all ntrolled by Democrats. Mnota’s legalizatn forhadows gay marriage’s movement om the liberal peripherals to middle the bill pass today go to the Senate on Monday, where punds also expect to pass.