No. 7
Ruling: Ohio must recognize same-sex marriages on death certificates It may seem narrow in its scope, but United States
Southern District of Ohio Court judge, Timothy Black’s ruling that “once you get married lawfully in one state, another state cannot summarily take your marriage away,” regarding a case in which a death certificate names a man as another man’s spouse, is likely to be used as precedent in challenges to Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriages.
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No. 8
Marriage Equality in Utah Utah is special to gay Californians. A large, religious sect headquartered there exported a “gift” to
California in 2008, called Proposition 8. It is no secret that the biggest promoter and funding source for the successful bid to snatch away
the freedom to marry from same-sex couples in the Golden State was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons), with its titular head located in Salt Lake City. Now, thanks to that spiritual principle known as karma, or “reaping what you sow,” what started
with Californians’ push back against Proposition 8 and ended with the fall of it and DOMA in 2013, has also morphed into the arrival in the home state of Mormonism of—wait for it—same-sex marriage! In December, a federal court refused to grant a stay of a conservative federal judge’s ruling that ordered marriage licenses to be granted in Utah.
Marriage equality comes full circle in Hawaii Ironically, or perhaps surreptitiously, the year that
saw the Defense of Marriage Act die was also the year that same-sex marriage was made legal in the state that inspired DOMA’s enactment by moving toward marriage equality way back in the early 1990s. In a way, both marriage equality and DOMA
were born in Hawaii. Now, in addition to being the president’s second home state and favorite vacation spot, Hawaii is among the states where marriage is available to all loving couples.
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