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Mississippi bill: OK to refuse services, licenses related to same-sex marriages
The bill could allow clerks to refuse to issue marriage licenses or judges refuse to perform ceremonies, and let businesses refuse services for same-sex weddings.
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Divorce granted to Mississippi same-sex couple after 2 years
Two years after their divorce filing got tangled up in Mississippi’s efforts to prevent same-sex marriage, a judge dissolved the legal union of Lauren Czekala-Chatham and Dana Ann Melancon.
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Couples press for end to Mississippi’s last-in-the-nation gay adoption ban
Four lesbian couples pressed a federal judge on Friday to overturn the ban, but lawyers for the state argued the lawsuit should be tossed out.
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‘No constitutional basis’: Mississippi Supreme Court narrowly grants same-sex divorce
The Mississippi Supreme Court voted to allow a lesbian couple to seek a divorce — even as two justices claimed The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling has no constitutional basis.
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Miss Mississippi has no patience for Kim Davis’ antigay rhetoric
Hannah Roberts lit up social media after throwing a bit of Southern-style shade at the Rowan County clerk.
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Plaintiffs seek to block Miss. ban on gay couples adopting
The couples and two gay-rights groups filed suit Aug. 12 to challenge the 2000 adoption ban.
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Bryan Fischer thinks gays ‘are bringing slavery back’
“As well as tyranny.”
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Lawsuit challenges Mississippi’s same-sex adoption ban
In 2000, then-Gov. Ronnie Musgrove signed the ban, but now says he regrets doing so.
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Fifth Circuit appeals court instructs federal judges to issue same-sex marriage rulings
The order clears one of the final procedural roadblocks in the cases from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, which had been pending before the New Orleans-based court. The 5th Circuit had heard arguments in the appeals, but hadn’t ruled.
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Marriage equality fight turns to clerks, probate judges who refuse licenses to same-sex couples
Legal experts are dubious that religious freedom arguments will protect public officials who not only refuse to participate due to their own beliefs, but also decline to make accommodations so that others who don’t object can serve the public instead.