Gay Marriage - DOMA, 14th Amendment & Supreme Court | HISTORY

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• KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE
• KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED
• KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL’ RIGHTS NYG MARRIAGE LICENS, JUDGE L
• GAY MARRIAGE
• KENTUCKY SENATE VOT TO CREATE SEPARATE GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE

KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE

— Defyg the Supreme Court and sayg she was actg “unr God’s thory, ” a unty clerk Kentucky nied marriage licens to gay upl on Tuday, ls than a day after the urt rejected her requt for a lay.

One uple, David Ermold and David Moore, tried to engage the unty clerk, Kim Davis, a bate before the meras, but as she had before, she turned them away, sayg repeatedly that she would not issue licens to any upl, gay or straight. To me this has never been a gay or lbian issue.

The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl is seekg to close the book on a ntent se that ma her a pariah to progrsiv and a hero to some relig County Clerk Kim Davis has asked the 6th U.

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED

Easley / APThe new law provis “the very relig acmodatn Davis sought om the begng of this ligatn, ” Davis' lawyers claimed the urt ACLU, which was party to the su agast Davis filed by four gay upl who were nied marriage licens, offered no objectns. ”“On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg, we’re pleased that same-sex upl n fully realize legal regnn of their love, cludg Rowan County, Kentucky, ” add Louisville lawyer Daniel Canon, who reprented one of the beme the darlg of the relig right last summer when she refed to issue marriage licens after the Supreme Court legalized gay Apostolic Christian who has been married four tim — twice to the same man — Davis argued that her fah f marriage as the unn of a man and a woman. She said that by signg a marriage license for a gay uple she was vlatg a te of her relign.

KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL’ RIGHTS NYG MARRIAGE LICENS, JUDGE L

— A Kentucky unty clerk who has bee a symbol of relig opposn to same-sex marriage was jailed Thursday after fyg a feral urt orr to issue licens to gay clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, Ky., was orred taed for ntempt of urt and later rejected a proposal to allow her puti to procs same-sex marriage licens that uld have prompted her release. Some advot for gay rights quickly exprsed ncern that Ms. ViotranscripttranscriptProtters Outsi Kentucky CourthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to — COURTESY WHAS11 NEWS, EMBARGO LOUISVILLE.

Var of gay marriage supporters and monstrators outsi Kentucky urthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to jail. Davis jailed, the agreements by her puty clerks left gay and straight upl poised to receive marriage licens the unty for the first time months.

GAY MARRIAGE

The rabow flag, a symbol of the gay rights movement, was on display along wh signs that rried msag like “Sodomy is s. Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg om Washgton.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Clerk Choos Jail Over Deal on Gay Unns. She was sued by gay and straight upl and spent five days jail over her refal. Gay uple applyg for marriage license speaks to CNN.

When Davis returned to work last Monday, she reerated her opposn to gay marriage but said she wouldn’t prevent her puti om issug licens to such upl – as long as those documents didn’t rry her name or tle. Supreme Court lg that legalized gay marriage across the natn. In another velopment, ACLU lawyers for the gay uple who sued Davis filed a brief urgg the judge to allow the lawsu to take class-actn stat.

KENTUCKY SENATE VOT TO CREATE SEPARATE GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE

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. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.