As of Tuday, gay upl will be permted to get married Florida. Here are three thgs to know:
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OFFICIALS EXAMG STATE LAW WHICH BANS GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark cisn Friday relegat Florida's gay marriage ban to the bwebbed rners of history. * gay marriage legal in 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?
GAY MARRIAGE FLORIDA – LEGAL OR NOT?
Gay marriage has been legal natnwi for nearly eight years, and some lawmakers want to know why Florida still has a law on the books banng . * gay marriage legal in florida *
Several urt clerks are already planng to issue nuptial licens to gay upl startg at 12:01 a.
* gay marriage legal in florida *
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. ” 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.