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Supreme Court Strikes Down Tennessee Marriage Ban

Affiliate: ACLU of Tennessee

June 26, 2015 12:45 pm

NASHVILLE, TN – The United States Supreme Court dominated today in Obergefell v. Hodges to uphold the independence to marry in all fifty states. The Court’s decree ensures that states must recognize queer marriages performed in other states and strikes down declare marriage bans, including Tennessee’s.

Obergefell v. Hodges was a consolidated case that challenged laws in Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio that banned the freedom to marry for gay couples and prohibited recognition of homosexual marriages performed in other states. ACLU was counsel on the Ohio and Kentucky petitions, and filed an amicus brief in the Tennessee case, Tanco v. Haslam.

The monitoring can be attributed to Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee:

“Today we commemorate history in the making with this momentous win for freedom, equality, inclusion and, above all, love. The Supreme Court’s decision ensures that loving, devoted same-sex couples in Tennessee and nationwide w

Tennessee Lawmakers Pile on 4 More Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills – So Far – On Top of the TWENTY They Have Already Passed in Recent Years
NASHVILLE, TN — In a truly stunning display of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and targeted misuse of government power, Tennessee lawmakers last week sent to the governor THREE recent pieces of legislation targeting the rights and existence of the LGBTQ+ society and has continued working on harmful bills this week. The three bills last week track on the heels of SB 1738, passed earlier this month and signed by Governor Bill Lee, which could place LGBTQ+ youth in the foster care system into unsupportive homes.
Last week’s newly passed bills, if signed into law, would further extend Tennessee’s shameful, shocking lead among U.S. states in enacting anti-LGBTQ+ laws since 2015:
Tennessee: 21 laws enacted (would be **24** if all 3 newly passed bills are signed into law)
Arkansas: 13 laws enacted
Florida: 13 laws enacted
Montana: 12 laws enacted
North Dakota: 12 laws enacted
This unrelenting commute to make Tennessee hostile to Queer people – and especially transgender people – stands apart, even compared to other states tha
Tanco v. Haslam
In Historic Ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Marriage Equality Across the United States on June 26, 2015
BACKGROUND:
On October 21, 2013, NCLR filed a lawsuit on behalf of three legally married same-sex couples, challenging Tennessee laws that prevented the state from respecting their marriages and treating them the same as all other legally married couples in Tennessee.
The Tennessee couples, who included a full-time Army reservist and two professors of veterinary medicine, all formerly lived and married in other states and later moved to Tennessee to pursue careers and make new homes for their families. Tennessee refused to respect the couples’ lawful marriages and treated them as strangers to each other.
The lawsuit challenged Tennessee’s laws prohibiting recognition of the couples’ marriages as a violation of multiple provisions of the federal constitution, including equal protection and due process and the constitutionally-protected right to travel between and move to other states.
To prevent the plaintiff couples from continuing to be harmed by Tennessee’s laws, a federal district court in Nashville, Tennessee ruled

Tennessee now allows public officials to refuse to solemnize a marriage for any reason, after Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed into law a bill that critics say could form the state more hostile toward LGBTQ+ residents.
House Bill 878, which went into effect immediately, states simply that "a person shall not be required to solemnize a marriage." Critics say the law will allow local and state officials to discriminate against same-sex couples as well as interracial and interfaith couples.
Under Tennessee state code, wedding ceremonies must be "solemnized" by either a religious leader such as a priest or rabbi or a local or state elected official or judge. (There is an exception for Quaker weddings, which do not have an officiant, but people who receive online ordinations are not allowed to solemnize a wedding.)
In a utterance to CNN, Camilla Taylor, the deputy legal director for litigation for the advocacy group Lambda Legal, called HB 878 "patently unconstitutional" and an attempt to "roll back recent progress by the LGBTQ community."
Lee and the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Highlight Pody, both Republicans, did not respond to NBC's requests for comment, and neither has