Gay marriage in mississippi
JACKSON — Legal challenges to the anti-LGBT House Bill 1523 will continue, as U.S. District Decide Carlton Reeves has lifted the endure on the 2014 lawsuit that sought to force the State of Mississippi to recognize queer marriages and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Plaintiffs in the 2014 Campaign for Southern Equality v. Phil Bryant et al case took issue with the section of HB 1523 that allows state government officials, including circuit clerks, to “seek recusal from authorizing or licensing lawful marriages based upon or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction described in Section 2 of this act.”
HB 1523 protects the “sincerely held” religious beliefs or moral convictions” that marriage is between “one man and one woman;” sexual relations are reserved for such a marriage; and sex is determined “by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.”
Circuit clerks looking to recuse from issuing same-sex marriage licenses are supposed to provide written see to the Articulate Registrar of Crucial Records. Plaintiffs in the CSE v. Bryant 2014 case, represented by Roberta Kaplan, argued that this section of HB 1523 warranted re-opening of
Mississippi, Arkansas same-sex marriage bans tumble (UPDATED)
UPDATED Wednesday 12:11 a.m. The wave of federal court orders against state bans on same-sex marriage swept into the Deep South on Tuesday, as a federal judge in Mississippi struck down that state’s prohibition. In a fervent defense of the role of the courts in protecting individual rights against majority voter sentiment, and a lengthy critique of Mississippi’s history against gay rights, U.S. District Judge Carlton Wayne Reeves of Jackson found the disallow to be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equality. He put his decree on hold for two weeks to allow the state to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where conflicting rulings from Louisiana (upholding a ban) and Texas (nullifying a ban) are already pending. (The post below discusses a ruling in Arkansas earlier in the day.)
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Refusing to postpone acting until state courts rule on the issue, a federal judge in Little Rock on Tuesday struck down the Arkansas ban on lgbtq+ marriage. This was the second ruling against such a disallow in a state within the geographic region of the federal Eighth
Gay Marriage Advocates Want Mississippi Law Struck Down
JACKSON, Yearn. — Advocates of homosexual marriage said Monday that they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Mississippi law that lets government workers and business people cite their own religious objections to refuse services to gay couples.
The statute, considered the broadest religious-objections law enacted since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, has been on grip amid court challenges. But it is set to take effect Friday because a federal appeals court refused to keep blocking it.
Championed and signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in 2016, the commandment protects three beliefs: that marriage is only between a man and a woman, sex should only take place in such a marriage, and a person's gender is determined at birth and cannot be altered.
"This is an unfair and unconstitutional law," said Robert McDuff, an attorney for some of the gay and direct Mississippi residents who sued to try to block it.
The Mississippi law would allow clerks to cite religious objections to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and would protect merchants who refuse services to
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Protesters say a bill in Mississippi would sanction discrimination by letting general employees cite their own religious opinions to refuse to issue marriage licenses or perform weddings for same-sex couples.
Mississippi is one of about 10 states where such bills were filed in response to the U.S. Supreme decree last summer legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
The Mississippi Senate has a Wednesday deadline to consider Dwelling Bill 1523. A few dozen people protested the bill Tuesday at the Capitol.
The bill says public employees, business people and those involved with foster care or adoptions could not be punished for acting on beliefs that marriage should only be between a man and a woman; that “sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage”; and that gender is determined at birth.
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