Minnesota gay marriage
1971 same-sex marriage makes Minnesota couple the nation’s first
Minnesota same-sex marriage milestone
Minnesota's Jack Baker and Michael McConnell married in 1971, becoming the first same-sex couple to legally tie the knot, but it wasn't so simple: Blue Ground County initially issued the certificate of marriage, but refused to record it, saying it was defective – setting off a legal battle that wasn’t settled until 2018.
BLUE Planet CO., Minn. (FOX 9) - Marriage was already on the minds of Jack Baker and Michael McConnell by the moment they moved to Minnesota in 1969.
Making a marriage
Some trickery:
After Hennepin County rejected their first application, Jack changed his name to the gender-neutral Pat Lynn McConnell and the couple convinced Blue Earth County to issue a certificate for marriage in 1971.
On Sept. 3, in a hot south Minneapolis duplex, they exchanged rings.
"Michael and Jack have pledged their faith," said Pastor Roger Lynn as he concluded the nuptials. "They hold publicly declared their passion. I declare that they are to live together and are now connected in marriage."
Lynn was a Methodist pastor who performed the ceremony and signed
Minnesota Makes Three: Marriage Equality Passes North Celestial body State
WASHINGTON – Just six months after voters in Minnesota voted to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage, the state legislature today passed legislation providing equal access to civil marriages for gay and lesbian couples. Once Gov. Mark Dayton signs the bill into law, Minnesota becomes the twelfth articulate with marriage equality and the third state this month to pass marriage equality legislation, following Rhode Island and Delaware.
“Minnesota is a perfect example of the progress we’ve made on marriage equality in America,” said Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin. “Voters in Minnesota brought anti-equality efforts to a screeching halt on Election Day, and today state leaders in St. Paul made it transparent that all Minnesota families are equal in the eyes of the law.”
Leading into this year’s successful campaign to transfer marriage equality legislation, HRC helped form the Minnesotans United coalition campaign to defeat the 2012 anti-marriage constitutional amendment that would have barred marri
In Minnesota, bouquets and brickbats for high court's marriage ruling
We look at Ireland's vote, historic U.S. polling on same-sex marriage and how campaigns for marriage equality communicate a message.
The owners of a lodge in central Minnesota have agreed to pick up the tab for the wedding and reception of a same-sex couple they initially turned away.
Gay marriage arrived in the Bible Belt on Saturday, beginning with two women who had traveled overnight to ensure they'd be first in line.
Richard Carlbom, the architect behind the political movement that supported the legalization of same-sex marriage in Minnesota, is now working in other states to perform the same thing.
Same-sex couples received nearly 1 in 3 marriage licenses issued in Minnesota since they were allowed to wed, The Associated Press found in a statewide survey of the
The Freedom to Marry in Minnesota
Winning Marriage:August 1, 2013
Same-sex couples began marrying in Minnesota on August 1, 2013 after Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signed the freedom to marry into law on May 14, 2013. The bill’s alley came shortly on the heels of marriage supporters making history by defeating an anti-marriage constitutional amendment at the ballot in Minnesota in November 2012.
History and the Path to Victory:
- May 18, 1970: A same-sex couple, Richard Baker and James McConnell, employ for a marriage license in Minneapolis, and the request is denied. Baker and McConnell file a legal case, which is dismissed by a bring down court, then appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which affirms the reduce court’s dismissal. The case, Baker v. Nelson, is the centerpiece of the first wave of marriage litigation in the 1970s.
- October 10, 1972: Baker and McConnell appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which dismisses the case “for want of a substantial federal question.”
- June 2, 1997: The Minnesota Legislature passes a state statute restricting marriage to different-sex couples.
- 1998-2012: As Americans nationwide
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