Michigan gay marriage ban
Saturday marks 11 years since Mich. marriage equality conclusion
Saturday is the 11-year wedding anniversary for more than 300 gay and lesbian couples who were married in Michigan following a landmark court decision.
The evening before, in 2014, a federal judge in Detroit ruled Michigan’s queer marriage ban violated equal protection and due process rights in the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman’s decision went into effect immediately, which sent hundreds of couples dashing to clergy and courthouses to gain married while they could.
The first documented wedding took place at 8:05 a.m. at the Ingham County Courthouse in Mason.
“By the leadership invested in me by the excellent state of Michigan, I pronounce you married,” declared a teary-eyed Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum to newlyweds Glenna DeJong and Marsha Caspar.
Byrum was one of four county clerks who opened their doors that Saturday to issue licenses and carry out same-sex weddings. Clergy also showed up at courthouses to officiate ceremonies and some newlyweds spent their wedding afternoon acting as witnesses for other lgbtq+ couples.
The weddings continued as then-Michigan Attorney Ge
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Tomorrow is the 11-year wedding anniversary for more than 300 queer couples who were married in Michigan following a landmark court decision. A federal judge in Detroit had commanded the day before, on March 20th, 2014, that the state’s same-sex marriage ban violated the U.S. Constitution’s matching protection clause.
That conclusion sent hundreds of couples dashing to clergy and courthouses to get married while they could.
It also set Michigan’s same-sex marriagecontroversy on a path to the U.S. Supreme Court before it issued its historic same-sex marriage decision.
The case started out as an adoption rights challenge filed by a same-sex attracted couple that wanted to jointly adopt the special-needs kids they were raising together. Michigan commandment at the period only allowed one unmarried person to qualify as an adoptive parent.
It was U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman, a President Ronald Reagan appointee, who suggested the bottom
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