Louisville's LGBTQ history: Timele of KY gay, lbian and trans past

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY
• KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG
• GAY MARRIAGE
• KENTUCKY CLERK WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO GAY COUPL WON’T BE ALONE COURT
• JUDGE WHO STCK DOWN GAY MARRIAGE BAN KY. DI

GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY

Gay Marriage Regnized In Kentucky, For NowKentucky, for the moment, regniz gay marriage. In a historic lg rhapg the fn of the Amerin fay, the Supreme Court on Friday validated bans on same-sex marriage Kentucky and across the untry, holdg that gays and lbians have the nstutnal right to urt led 5-4 that stat mt grant same-sex upl licens to marry and regnize such marriag performed other stat.

Wrg for the majory, Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the same-sex marriage bans worked "a grave and ntug harm" agast gays and lbians and disrpected them.

Court of Appeals upheld bans on gay marriage Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and ntu after vioThe cisn is a victory for six gay and lbian upl om Kentucky and restat two lgs by late U.

KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG

"Mart Cothran, senr analyst for the Fay Foundatn of Kentucky, which promoted the 2004 state nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage or s regnn, said the lg "has nothg to do wh terpretg the Constutn" and "everythg to do wh an ele ste of judg who thk they have the power to rewre .

GAY MARRIAGE

Albert Mohler Jr., print of the Southern Baptist Theologil Semary, who helped lead the culture war agast gay marriage, said the cisn plac every relig stutn legal jeopardy that tends to "uphold the nvictns held by believers for lennia. "The majory opn, which Kennedy was joed by Jtic Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bar Gsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, says the right of same-sex upl to marry is protected by both the equal protectn clse of the Constutn and s guarantee of due before the lg, gays and lbians had the right to marry 37 stat and the District of Columbia, and nearly 72 percent of the U.

Populatn lived those feral and state urts granted gays the right to marry 26 of those stat, vers only three that adopted by popular vote and eight through their state legislatur. That meant a cisn by the Supreme Court agast gay marriage would have dramatilly pared back where is ntu after vioThe lead se cid by the urt arose 2013 when Jim Obergefell of Ccnati married his longtime partner, John Arthur, Maryland, where such marriag were legal. When Arthur died of Lou Gehrig's disease, Oh refed to list Obergefell as his spoe on the ath certifite, and he Kentucky se was set motn Febary 2014 when Heyburn led for four gay and lbian upl, sayg that Kentucky mt regnize same-sex marriag performed stat where that is legal.

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO GAY COUPL WON’T BE ALONE COURT

"One's belief to the ntrary, however scerely held, nnot alone jtify nyg a selected group their nstutnal rights, " he wrote, beg the first feral judge the South to throw out a gay marriage months later, lg for two gay upl, Heyburn stck down Kentucky's ban on licensg gay marriag the state. Circu Court of Appeals beme the first feral appeals urt to le agast gay marriage.

"Bhear, who on electn to his first term as ernor 2008 signed an executive orr prohibg discrimatn agast state employe who are gay or transgenr, refed to say where he stood personally on gay marriage. Bhear: Whether gay marriage performed elsewhere mt be regnized Kentucky.

JUDGE WHO STCK DOWN GAY MARRIAGE BAN KY. DI

Bhear: Whether gays and lbians should be able to marry Kentucky.