On gay marriage, the appeals urt got the right answer to the wrong qutn.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE: A SPL AMONGST THE CIRCUS
- ONE COURT, THREE JUDG AND FOUR STAT WH GAY MARRIAGE CAS
- APPEALS COURT RESTAT GAY MARRIAGE BANS FOR THE FIRST TIME
- APPEALS URT UPHOLDS MICHIGAN'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
GAY MARRIAGE: A SPL AMONGST THE CIRCUS
On November 6th, those fightg for the right to gay marriage across the entire U.S. were alt a heavy blow when the U.S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu led agast the practice of gay marriage four stat (Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee). * sixth circuit gay marriage *
Better, this stance, we thk, to allow change through the ctomary polil procs, which the people, gay and straight alike, bee the hero of their own stori by meetg each other not as adversari a urt system but as fellow cizens seekg to rolve a new social issue a fair-md way.
ONE COURT, THREE JUDG AND FOUR STAT WH GAY MARRIAGE CAS
The 6th Circu Court of Appeals upheld gay marriage bans four stat on Thursday, a pivotal pot the legal battle for marriage equaly that mak the… * sixth circuit gay marriage *
* It found that none of the bans adopted by voter-approved ballot measur the four stat volved the s had been enacted out of hostily (“anim”) toward gays and lbians, but rather sought only to dify long-standg social norms about marriage, already reflected state laws. * It nclud that what the same-sex upl were seekg was a fundamental right to “gay marriage, ” and that do not exist unr the Constutn.
APPEALS COURT RESTAT GAY MARRIAGE BANS FOR THE FIRST TIME
Gay marriage soon to be legal 35 stat cludg some of the untry’s most nservative, but sixth circu lg looms<br> * sixth circuit gay marriage *
The route of regnizg gay marriage through the Constutn, said, “do not exist. Gays and lbians, said, have not been regnized by the Supreme Court as a discrete class servg of special nstutnal protectn as historic targets of discrimatn. ” Victori by gay rights advot through iativ and legislatn, remarked, would lead to “greater acceptance” of those goals.
APPEALS URT UPHOLDS MICHIGAN'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
He also leaned toward the view (although aga this isn’t certa) that Sixth Circu precent preclud a holdg that anti-gay discrimatn is most tertg exchang occurred on the qutn whether a state’s tert procreatn was ratnally related to limg marriage as the stat have.
The opposg view is that excludg same-sex upl do not advance the state’s tert procreatn bee heterosexual upl’ procreatn isn’t affected by whether gay upl n marry (an excln amg). ” The lawyer for the Michigan upl beme emotnal, almost chokg up as she spoke about how her clients live “fly-over untry” where no progrs is beg ma for gay men and lbians. In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs.
Bh that would outlaw same-sex marriag the whole untry, ten typilly nservative tat along wh Oregon enacted state-level bans on gay marriag. In 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman to be unnstutnal, 2013, Uned Stat v.