Court Overturns DOMA, Sisteps Broad Gay Marriage Rulg : The Two-Way : NPR

Contents:

• COURT OVERTURNS DOMA, SISTEPS BROAD GAY MARRIAGE RULG
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SUBS LOOKG FOR DOMS (GAY MEN ONLY)
• DOMA COMPLIT GAY DIVORC

COURT OVERTURNS DOMA, SISTEPS BROAD GAY MARRIAGE RULG

Supreme Court is lled "Sectn Three, " which prevented the feral ernment om regnizg any marriag between gay or lbian upl for the purpose of feral laws or programs, even if those upl are nsired legally married by their home state. The other signifint part of DOMA mak so that dividual stat do not legally have to acknowledge the relatnships of gay and lbian upl who were married another state. Sectn Three is the part that prevented the feral ernment om regnizg any marriag between gay or lbian upl for the purpose of feral laws or programs, even if those upl are nsired legally married by their home is the stat of DOMA right now?

Anti-gay activists are nstantly implyg that children of straight parents are better off than children of gay or lbian parents.

GAY MARRIAGE

Those studi did NOT pare children of spo of straight upl to children of gay and lbian upl. All of the US's leadg mastream medil, tnal and psychologil associatns overwhelmgly agree that children of gay and lbian upl fare jt as well as children of straight example; The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics says: "[S]cientific lerature monstrat" that same-sex uple children "fare as well. " The Amerin Psychologil Associatn says: "There is no scientific basis for ncludg that lbian mothers or gay fathers are unf parents on the basis of their sexual orientatn.

" The Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn says: "Gay and lbian dividuals and upl are pable of meetg the bt tert of the child. " The Child Welfare League of Ameri says: "Any attempt to preclu or prevent gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals or upl om parentg, based solely on their sexual orientatn, is not the bt tert of children. A study published 2010 the journal Demography nclus that children beg raised by gay and lbian upl have almost exactly the same tnal achievement as children raised by married heterosexual upl.

SUBS LOOKG FOR DOMS (GAY MEN ONLY)

A report published the Amerin Soclogil Reviewback 2001 examed 21 studi which "almost uniformly (found) no notable differenc between children reared by heterosexual parents and those reared by lbian and gay parents…" And a study prented at the 1997 natnal meetg of the Society for Rearch on Child Development, rearch psychologist Charlotte Patterson said, "When you look at kids wh standard psychologil asssments, you n't tell who has a lbian parent and who has a heterosexual parent.

DOMA prohibed married gay upl om receivg the same feral benefs that straight upl are granted.

The urt also cleared the way for gay marriag to rume California. Allan Hoyle of North Carola (center) protts gay marriage outsi the Supreme Court. At San Francis's Cy Hall, supporters of gay marriage celebrate the Supreme Court DOMA lg.

DOMA COMPLIT GAY DIVORC

The Supreme Court issued lgs on two highly-anticipated s on gay marriage today. In a separate lg, cled to take on the broar issue of gay marriage. And our lleague Liz Halloran looks at what's next for gay married upl.

'Immense Victory': Legal scholar Jefey Toob tells CNN that the DOMA se is an "immense victory" for proponents of gay marriage.

"The urt uld have said all 50 stat should have gay marriage, " Toob said. But the DOMA se ma clear that the urt would agree that banng gay marriage is a vlatn of the Constutn. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.