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05-17-2014, 02:13 PM
A Decade of Equality: Remembering the First Same-*** Marriages in the U.S.
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Saturday marks 10 years since same-*** marriage (http://mashable.com/category/gay-marriage/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) was first legalized in the United StatesMassachusetts (http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/history-and-timeline-of-marriage) was the first state to grant same-*** couples the right to marry, on May 17, 2004
Iowa, Maine and Vermont followed in 2009, and more since, though the history of same-*** marriage in the U.S. is storied with struggles and legislative roadblocks
The first **table state case for marriage equality was Baker v. Nelson (http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/gay-marriage-and-baker-v-nelson/). In 1971, couple Richard John Baker and James Michael McConnell applied for a Minneapolis marriage license with court clerk Gerald R. Nelson. They were denied, because state law required applicants to be of the opposite ***. The couple appealed to the state Supreme Court, but got denied again, on the grounds that gay marriage was deemed unconstitutional at the time Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/17/same-***-marriage-decade/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Saturday marks 10 years since same-*** marriage (http://mashable.com/category/gay-marriage/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) was first legalized in the United StatesMassachusetts (http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/history-and-timeline-of-marriage) was the first state to grant same-*** couples the right to marry, on May 17, 2004
Iowa, Maine and Vermont followed in 2009, and more since, though the history of same-*** marriage in the U.S. is storied with struggles and legislative roadblocks
The first **table state case for marriage equality was Baker v. Nelson (http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/gay-marriage-and-baker-v-nelson/). In 1971, couple Richard John Baker and James Michael McConnell applied for a Minneapolis marriage license with court clerk Gerald R. Nelson. They were denied, because state law required applicants to be of the opposite ***. The couple appealed to the state Supreme Court, but got denied again, on the grounds that gay marriage was deemed unconstitutional at the time Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/17/same-***-marriage-decade/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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