Several states, including Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee, banned or refused to recognize same-sex marriages that occurred in states where it was legal. Same sex couples from those states turned to suing their respective local agencies on the matter. Plaintiffs in each case argued that the ban failed to uphold the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. One group also brought claims of the ban going against the Civil Rights Act. In all the cases argued in the local courts, the plaintiffs won. Despite the adverse response to the bans, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the state’s ban and refusal to recognize the marriages did not violate the couple’s Fourteenth Amendment rights.
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In the Huffington Post article “What Impact Will Gay Marriage Really Have On America?”, author Nate Phelps points out that these concerns usually derive from religious communities. He states that one of the big pushes to make same-sex marriage illegal after it was already legal happened in California with Proposition 8 or Prop 8. Prop 8 pushed to make same-sex marriage illegal in California after it was already made legal and it succeeded. It was later overturned, but it proves that religious communities can have a huge impact on the issue. Other countries that have made same-sex marriage legal long before Obergefell v. Hodges, such as Canada, have experienced no negative outcomes.
Nate Phelps’ article relates back to Obergefell v. Hodges because he talks about how same-sex marriage can be perceived as a scary for some people in the US since it’s such a big change that many people haven’t really thought about in a positive way. It’s a huge shift in a big group of people’s ideology and there are a wide range of opinions people have on the …show more content…
Hodges”, Marina Koren gives some statistics on same-sex marriage taken from Gallup Polls. The information states that since the Obergefell v. Hodges case, same-sex marriages have increased by 22 percent. Gallup polls have also suggested that there has been about 123,000 same-sex marriages since the ruling and estimates that 0.4 percent out of the 3.9 percent of all LGBT individuals have married. There was a big surge directly following the ruling, but things have slowed down since. Koran argues that this is likely because many LGBT people are young and not ready to get married yet. Before the ruling was made on same-sex marriage, 26 percent of same-sex couples in states where it was banned were married anyway and after the ruling the number jumped to 39 percent. A similar jump was seen in states where it wasn’t banned the number jumping from 42 percent to 52
In the Huffington Post article “What Impact Will Gay Marriage Really Have On America?”, author Nate Phelps points out that these concerns usually derive from religious communities. He states that one of the big pushes to make same-sex marriage illegal after it was already legal happened in California with Proposition 8 or Prop 8. Prop 8 pushed to make same-sex marriage illegal in California after it was already made legal and it succeeded. It was later overturned, but it proves that religious communities can have a huge impact on the issue. Other countries that have made same-sex marriage legal long before Obergefell v. Hodges, such as Canada, have experienced no negative outcomes.
Nate Phelps’ article relates back to Obergefell v. Hodges because he talks about how same-sex marriage can be perceived as a scary for some people in the US since it’s such a big change that many people haven’t really thought about in a positive way. It’s a huge shift in a big group of people’s ideology and there are a wide range of opinions people have on the …show more content…
Hodges”, Marina Koren gives some statistics on same-sex marriage taken from Gallup Polls. The information states that since the Obergefell v. Hodges case, same-sex marriages have increased by 22 percent. Gallup polls have also suggested that there has been about 123,000 same-sex marriages since the ruling and estimates that 0.4 percent out of the 3.9 percent of all LGBT individuals have married. There was a big surge directly following the ruling, but things have slowed down since. Koran argues that this is likely because many LGBT people are young and not ready to get married yet. Before the ruling was made on same-sex marriage, 26 percent of same-sex couples in states where it was banned were married anyway and after the ruling the number jumped to 39 percent. A similar jump was seen in states where it wasn’t banned the number jumping from 42 percent to 52