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LOS ANGELES. —With cheers, tears and kisses, gays and lesbians across the United States celebrated Wednesday’s historic Supreme Court verdict in support of lgbtq+ marriage, which provided produce for joy after years of protest.
Crowds turned out in gay capitals such as West Hollywood in California, San Francisco, South Miami Beach in Florida and the Recent York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, seen as the birthplace of the gay rights movement.
“It’s so wonderful organism down here celebrating and not protesting for a change,” Roger Silva, 69, said outside the Stonewall, grateful that a Modern York law allowed him to marry his loved one of 11 years in April. “I never consideration this would be doable in New York, much less the country.”
In a landmark ruling, the US Supreme Court forced the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages in states where it is legal and in a separate ruling it cleared the way for homosexual marriages in California.
Stonewall has become synonymous with gay rights since a police raid there on June 28, 1969, triggered a spontaneous and vicious demonstration that popularized the slogan “Out of the closet and into the streets.”
A jubilant crowd of
Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the declare House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Time –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to encounter legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal authority and are not binding law, but instead allow legislative bodies to express their collective opinions.
The resolutions in four other states ech
A decade after the U.S. legalized gay marriage, Jim Obergefell says the battle isn't over
Over the past several months, Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced measures aimed at undermining lgbtq+ marriage rights. These measures, many of which were crafted with the serve of the anti-marriage equality group MassResistance, seek to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell.
MassResistance told NBC News that while these proposals confront backlash and wouldn’t modify policy even if passed, keeping opposition to queer marriage in the general eye is a prevail for them. The collective said it believes marriage laws should be left to states, and they question the constitutional basis of the 5-to-4 Dobbs ruling.
NBC News reached out to the authors of these state measures, but they either declined an interview or did not respond.
“Marriage is a right, and it shouldn’t depend on where you live,” Obergefell said. “Why is queer marriage any different than interracial marriage or any other marriage?”
Obergefell’s journey to becoming a leader for same-sex marriage rights began with his own love story. In 2013, after his boyfriend, John Arthur, was diagnosed with terminal
A decade after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, marriage equality endures risky terrain
Milestones — especially in decades — usually call for celebration. The 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, is alternative. There’s a sense of unease as state and federal lawmakers, as successfully as several judges, get steps that could deliver the issue back to the Supreme Court, which could undermine or overturn existing and future gay marriages and weaken additional anti-discrimination protections.
In its nearly quarter century of life, the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Rule has been on the front lines of LGBTQ rights. Its amicus terse in the Obergefell case was instrumental, with Justice Anthony Kennedy citing numbers from the institute on the number of homosexual couples raising children as a deciding factor in the landmark decision.
“There were claims that allowing queer couples to marry would somehow devalue or diminish marriage for everyone, including different-sex couples,” said Brad Sears, a distinguished senior scholar of law and policy at the Williams Institute. &
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