Is gay marriage legal Florida? SCOTUS cisn on gay law

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• OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA
• GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?

OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA

In January, Florida beme the 36th state where gay marriage is legal. When Florida’s ban on same-sex marriag lifts at midnight, the Sunshe State will bee the send-largt state the Uned Stat after California to perm gay marriage, and raise the tally of stat where same-sex upl n marry the U. What do this mean for gay upl Florida?

Several urt clerks are already planng to issue nuptial licens to gay upl startg at 12:01 a. The legal wranglg over gay marriage Florida go back to 2008, when a voters the state passed a nstutnal amendment fg marriage the state as “the legal unn of only one man and one woman. Sce then, five s were brought Florida challengg the state’s 2008 gay marriage ban, and judg all the s unequivolly the ban unnstutnal.

Former Florida ernor Jeb Bh, who has announced he is explorg a printial n 2016, opposed gay marriage durg his ernorship, and didn’t endorse this week’s liftg of the stay. ” But the former ernor wasn’t publicly enthiastic 2008 about the succsful mpaign to ban gay marriage. He has also utned his party agast beg perceived as too “anti-gay.

GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?

” Later on Monday a note to the New York Tim, Bh avoid takg a firm stand on the end of the gay marriage ban. “I hope that we n show rpect for the good people on all sis of the gay and lbian marriage issue—cludg upl makg lifetime mments to each other who are seekg greater legal protectns and those of who believe marriage is a sacrament to safeguard relig liberty. Supreme Court's landmark cisn Friday relegat Florida's gay marriage ban to the bwebbed rners of urt's lg brgs closure to a yearslong battle between same-sex upl seekg the right to marry and to have their out-of-state marriag regnized, and the state's Republin lears, who have fought at every turn.

Although gay marriage beme legal Florida January, has remaed on appeal to the 11th U.

Circu Court of Appeals Atlanta, wag for the Supreme Court to ci whether gay upl had the right to marry ban "is ad, " said Elizabeth Whe, a Jacksonville civil rights attorney who helped brg one of the s that led to a feral judge's cisn last year strikg down the state's same-sex marriage ban. "The urt's 5-4 lg that all gay marriage bans are unnstutnal bookends s of tirels activism natnally and Florida, where lawmakers have passed some of the untry's tought antigay laws and where Ana Bryant's csa agast homosexuals the 1970s ma her a natnal celebry for the relig right. Although attus toward gay men and lbians have shifted rapidly across the Uned Stat, Florida's legislature remas eply divid.

A few months ago, Tallahassee lawmakers voted to repeal the state's 30-year ban on adoptns by same-sex upl, but also nsired a measure allowg private adoptn agenci to reject would-be parents who are gay. "Reactn om gay rights advot arrived swiftly and joyoly, as many celebrated the certaty that gay marriage Florida would rema a legal right.

District Court gay marriage opponents predicted the lg would spire public backlash, jt as the urt's 1973 cisn Roe vs. "It's very nfg why they want to let gays be happy.

… We n't say that gays are gog to be wele to e here and get married. Petersburg, passed domtic partnership registri, the state ban cut off gay upl om many of the fancial and legal rights of beg recently, many gay upl livg Florida who were married other stat uld not get divorced. District Judge Robert Hkle led Florida's gay marriage ban unnstutnal and rejected Bondi's requt that he lay his cisn om takg effect while she appealed.