{"id":34153,"date":"2014-12-19T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34153"},"modified":"2014-12-19T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T01:42:36","slug":"supreme-court-denies-bondis-request-to-further-delay-the-freedom-to-marry-clears-the-way-for-marriages-to-begin-in-florida-jan-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/12\/supreme-court-denies-bondis-request-to-further-delay-the-freedom-to-marry-clears-the-way-for-marriages-to-begin-in-florida-jan-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Denies Bondi\u2019s <br>Request to Further Delay the Freedom to Marry Clears the way for marriages to begin in Florida Jan 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34154\" title=\"flag1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/flag1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" \/>Today, the United States Supreme Court denied the State of Florida\u2019s motion for a stay of an August federal court ruling that overturned the state\u2019s ban on marriage for same-sex couples. The order means the\u00a0 stay expires at the end of the day on January 5. Same-sex couples will be free to marry in Florida once the stay in the ruling is lifted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;We are thrilled the U.S. Supreme Court has denied the State&#8217;s request to delay marriages in Florida,\u201d said Nadine Smith, CEO of Equality Florida, the state\u2019s largest advocacy organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Floridians. \u201cEvery day of delay is another day of harm experienced by thousands of loving and committed same-sex couples in Florida.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to break out the wedding bells!\u00a0 We look forward to January 6th being a special day &#8212; Florida is ready for the freedom to marry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On August 21, US District Court Judge Robert Hinkle ruled in favor of the freedom to marry and respect for marriages legally performed between same-sex couples in other states in the federal marriage cases,\u00a0Brenner v. Scott\u00a0andGrimsley and Albu v. Scott, brought by the ACLU of Florida, SAVE and private counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Tilley of the ACLU of Florida\u00a0 emphasized that now clerks across the entire state have a duty to marry couples. \u201cThe Supreme Court has spoken, and we expect clerks to begin marrying couples who will finally get access to the protections their families deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The District Court placed a hold on the decision to allow time for an appeal, but the stay is scheduled to expire on January 5.\u00a0\u00a0 On December 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Circuit denied the State of Florida\u2019s request for an extension of that stay, allowing same-sex couples to marry, even as the appeal in the case proceeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the United States Supreme Court denied the State of Florida\u2019s motion for a stay of an August federal court ruling that overturned the state\u2019s ban on marriage for same-sex&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}