Same-Sex Marriage

[Amy SF]

I think this topic deserves its own thread.

From Wikipedia:

Prior to 2004, same-sex marriage was not performed in any U.S. jurisdiction. It has since been legalized in different jurisdictions through legislation, court rulings,[73] tribal council rulings,[74] and popular vote in statewide referenda.[75][76]

As of October 10, 2014, 28 states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) and the District of Columbia issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

I believe restrictions have now been lifted in Idaho as well.

It will be interesting if I will see legal SSM all 50 states and D.C. in my lifetime.

 

[Envy]

I imagine that most people here support it.

 

[yakherder]

My first choice would be for marriage to not have any legal implications to begin with, making relationship status irrelevant in determining what you are or are not entitled to. But as long as it does then, sure, marriage for everyone

 

[RascalsMom]

My first choice would be for marriage to not have any legal implications to begin with, making relationship status irrelevant in determining what you are or are not entitled to. But as long as it does then, sure, marriage for everyone

This.

 

[Spang]

During President Obama's first term, I once predicted on another message board (that doesn't exist anymore) that same-sex marriage will be legal in all 50 states by the end of his second term. #2Predictions1Post

 

[Amy SF]

Gay marriage ban struck down in Alaska

 

[Joe]

I think gay people should have the equal right to experience the bitterness, the disappointment, the fighting, the backbiting, and the sheer hellish agony of marriage as heterosexual people do.

 

[Spang]

Not everyone in a same-sex relationship identifies as gay.

 

[Mikkel]

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Norway since 2009. I have a couple of friends and acquaintances that have gotten married since that, both women and men. I support of cause same-sex marriage, but I'm not the biggest fan of marriage at all. My relationship status isn't anything the gouverment has anything to do with.

Since I can't have or want kids, marriage isn't an option for me. I really don't need a priest to confirm I love anyone..

 

[Joe]

Not everyone in a same-sex relationship identifies as gay.

Please explain and expand on this.

 

[AeryFairy]

Please explain and expand on this.

Bisexuals, pansexuals, people who don't want to label themselves at all...

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Bisexuals, transsexuals, pansexuals, those who do not identify and such.

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Bisexuals, pansexuals, people who don't want to label themselves at all...

Posted at the same time.

 

[Mikkel]

In some contries, transgender people can't change the sex official. Just live as the sex they want. I don't think a transgender man would like to think of his marriage with a woman as a gay marriage, as other have stated.

But marriage is marriage, who ever is getting married.

 

[Joe]

I can give you one example of a "same sex" marriage where the people don't identify as gay (as far as I know). Chris (Christopher) and Nini were a couple here in Nashville. They then moved to Portland, Oregon, where they bought a house together and were married. Shortly after that, Chris decided to become Christina, and is now pursuing the steps to transition to being a woman (starting with hormone therapy, eventually progressing to surgery).

 

[SuicideBlonde]

I am on the human to human, no interspecies marriage, ticket.

 

[Amy SF]

“Deeply troubling”: Jan Brewer isn’t happy marriage equality is coming to Arizona - Salon.com

Also, the Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the lower court ruling on Alaska, so SSM there is now official.

 

[Amy SF]

Wyoming marriage equality ban joins Arizona and Alaska in being struck down

 

[Amy SF]

It looks like the dominoes are falling in the South.

Federal judges strike down marriage equality bans in Arkansas and Mississippi

 

[Amy SF]

Here's the updated Wikipedia article. Same-sex marriage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia