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From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• There’s a big fight underway right now in Alabama, with a Judge overturning a marriage ban and state officials refusing to obey his order to issue licenses.
• Anti-gay politicians are threatening to ban all marriage licenses if the Supreme Court rules in favor of equality.
• And one lawmaker even wants to send clerks to jail if they issue licenses to anyone — gay or straight.
This week in Marriage Equality from the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• Florida has finally legalized driving while gay.
• Bills to discriminate against gay couples are rapidly multiplying in Texas.
• Multiple states are still wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to reverse marriage equality.
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• Florida became the 36th state with the freedom to marry.
• Judges in three southern states heard oral arguments.
• The Supreme Court considered cases from five states.
• A lawmaker in Texas is wasting everyone’s time with a new anti-gay law that would make life difficult for everyone.
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
Marriage is starting this week in Florida. So why are our opponents saying it’s not? We’ll take a look at what’s really going on, and how they’re still trying to stop the weddings.
Also this week: oral argument in Louisiana could get pretty heated. Another Supreme Court conference. And some surprising polling.
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• Something big’s going to happen in Florida next week, we just don’t know what yet
• The Supreme Court is going to examine multiple marriage cases in early January
• New polling shows support for marriage higher than ever
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• Florida clerks can start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in January — but if they do, they could risk arrest and jail time.
• An anti-gay group in Hawaii is still trying — and failing — to stop marriages.
• Things are still looking bad for the National Organization for Marriage.
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• South Carolina’s anti-gay Attorney General may have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to gay rights groups
• New research shows why marriage equality has been so successful so fast
• Hillary Clinton gets thanks for supporting the freedom to marry from an unlikely source
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• Marriage could be coming to Florida sooner than we expected.
• After last week’s big win, the Mississippi lawsuit is now on the fast track to an appeal.
• Kansas just lost their latest attempt to hold back the start of marriage.
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
• Closer than ever to the start of marriage in Arkansas and Mississippi.
• Florida is refusing to issue drivers’ licenses to a couple after they married and changed their last name.
• Support for marriage has skyrocketed in Wyoming.
From the American Foundation For Equal Rights:
• Picked up three states with marriage this week. But in one of those states, some clerks are refusing to issue licenses.
• Alabama’s attorneys are using a discredited anti-gay researcher to build a case for banning marriage.
• And more bad news for what’s left of the National Organization for Marriage.