What happened to the nc woman who wouldnt marry gays
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis faces new lgbtq+ marriage choice
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis returns to her job Monday in Rowan County, she’ll get to make another vast choice.
She can obey a judge’s orders not to interfere with same-sex marriage licenses being issued by her deputies — and thus help end a national controversy over religious liberty and gay marriage. Or, she can proceed to object on the grounds of her Christian faith, and add fuel to the fire.
CBS News said Sunday that Harry Mihet, one of Davis’ attorney, said his client respects the idea of a separation of church and state but feels she shouldn’t have to directly participate in issuing marriage licenses that go against her religious beliefs.
“The Supreme Court has said same-sex marriage is legal -- she’s not trying to stop that,” CBS quoted Mihet as saying. “However, the Supreme Court has not decided that those marriages can be issued by a specific person in a specific county. ... The Constitution and regulation do not oblige her to prefer between her conscience and her livelihood.” He advocated ruling a way that she could endure to serve and not violate her conscience.
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States across U.S. still cling to outdated gay marriage bans
Following years of failed attempts under Republican control, Virginia’s newly empowered Democrats finally passed bills repealing two outdated mention laws that prohibited same-sex marriage. Sen. Adam Ebbin, the first openly queer lawmaker in the state’s General Assembly, introduced the bill, which was one of four pro-LGBTQ measures passed in the state this month.
“This is really just bringing Virginia into the 21st century,” Ebbin told The Washington Send shortly after the bills’ passage. “Voters showed us they wanted equality on Nov. 5, and the Senate of Virginia has started to deliver on that.”
Despite the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges making same-sex marriage the law of the land, most states still have outdated laws on their books like the ones Virginia just repealed.
Indiana is one of those states, though an endeavor to remove its gay marriage forbid was unsuccessful last month in the Republican-controlled state Legislature. In fact, GOP opposition to its removal derailed legislation seeking to elevate the legal age to marry in the state from 15 to 18. An amendment had been added to the age
16 North Carolina Judges Quit Following State's Legalization of Gay Marriage
Sixteen North Carolina judges have either resigned or retired after homosexual marriage became legal in the state last month when a judge commanded that an amendment to the state's constitution banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
In October, U.S. District Decide Max Cogburn of Asheville struck down the exclude and ruled the amendment unconstitutional in response to a Charlotte-based lawsuit.
Reports from the administrative office of the courts note that "between the ruling on Oct. 10 and the end of the month, 16 magistrates left their jobs, but the articulate wouldn't release why they left," Time Warner Cable News-Charlotte reports.
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The cable network added that it's "been able to decide that at least 10 of the 16 magistrates who left last month, did so because they will not perform gay marriages."
"The number of North Carolina magistrates who possess resigned or retired initial because of their rivalry to performin
The root of the difficulty that Eichner foresees—and that she publicized in a 27-page legal analysis, and repurposed into op-eds, slideshows, and Cliff Note-style summaries—is that the amendment diverges from the language used in existing North Carolina marriage laws. The exclude on gay marriage that passed in 1996, the Marriage Protection Act, was very specific in how it defined marriage: “Marriages, whether created by ordinary law, contracted, or performed outside of North Carolina, between individuals of the same gender are not valid in North Carolina.” That reserved the possibility of legal recognition for heterosexual couples who weren’t technically married.
Amendment One by contrast uses an ambiguous term—“domestic legal unions”—that was intended to block the way for civil unions and domestic partnerships for homosexual couples. But it may also inadvertently rescind the legal status already granted to non-married couples who live together. As a result, the articulate may be forced to put a halt to the growing number of protections—ranging from domestic abuse protections to children’s health insurance—that it currently applications to non-married couples, queer and heterosexual alik
North Carolina farmers Laura and Cindy continue standing up for the freedom to marry
March 24, 2013
When you and your wife are responsible for taking care of a four-year-old daughter, 38 chickens, a dog, three cats, a garden of small fruits and an apiary occupied of honey bees on a 6-acre farm, it's natural for your bond to grow and deepen as you work together to maintain the property and ensure that all of your cohabitants - your pets, your farm animals, and your juvenile daughter - are properly cared for. That's what Laura Blackley and Cindy Jordan have been study over the past six years. In 2006, they bought a fixer-upper farm in Candler, NC, just west of Asheville, and in that time, they've learned a new range of skills and a deeper understanding of how much they love each other.
"That environment is a good laboratory for knowing your possess strengths and weaknesses and your partner's strengths and weaknesses and putting them to good use," Laura said.
Laura and Cindy have been together for over 11 years. When they met at a Christmas party in 2001, Laura was a traveling songwriter and composer, and as the women grew closer and became more serious, Cindy woul