A pair of 5-4 Supreme Court lgs stck down as unnstutnal a feral law nyg benefs to same-sex upl and cleared the way for gay marriag to rume California.
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
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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.
GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * doma gay *
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.
Those studi did NOT pare children of spo of straight upl to children of gay and lbian upl.
SUBS LOOKG FOR DOMS (GAY MEN ONLY)
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.
DOMA COMPLIT GAY DIVORC
" 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. 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.