Indiana. IC 3. Same sex marriage prohibited, Sec. Only a female may marry a male. Only a male may marry a female. How to obtain copies of vital records such as a birth certificate, birth record, death record, marriage license, marriage record, divorce decree, probate record or. RICHMOND, Ky. LEX 18 Officials with Eastern Kentucky University will unveil a Fallen Soldier Cross sculpture Saturday morning at Memorial Plaza in honor of. Search Oregon free public records including statewide, county, and city databases for births, deaths, marriage, corporations, court records, criminal records. Some Marriages in Indiana Clark County, Indiana Index to Marriage Record 19051920 Inclusive Volume I Letters A to C Inclusive Name Lela Bare Spouse Walter. A marriage between persons of the same gender is void in Indiana even if the marriage is lawful in the place where it is solemnized. As added by P. L. Sec. 3. Amended by P. L. 1. 98 1. 99. 7, Sec. On November 2. 6, 2. Indiana Equality Action published a study researched by law students from the LGBT Project at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law titled More Than Just a Couple 6. Reasons Why Marriage Equality Matters in Indiana. The study detailed the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage found in 6. Indiana Code. It said that these laws show that marriage discrimination in the state not only denies many legal rights to same sex couples but also denies the public protection from conflicts of interest from activities that are prohibited for opposite sex married couples but not for same sex couples. In January 2. Representative Jim Lucas. The bill passed its first reading on January 9, 2. Marriage License In Indiana Marion County Clerks' title='Marriage License In Indiana Marion County Clerks' />LawsuitseditState lawsuitseditMorrison v. Sadler. A lawsuit brought in 2. ACLU on behalf of 3 same sex couples seeking marriage rights and challenging a 1. Marion County Superior Court in May 2. The judge ruled that restricting marriage to different sex couples promotes the states interest in encouraging procreation to occur in a context where both biological parents are present to raise the child. Two of the couples had formed civil unions in Vermont in 2. The ruling was upheld by a state Court of Appeals on January 2. After the ruling by the Court of Appeals in January 2. Vermont civil union and one couple had married in Canada as well, the plaintiffs decided not to appeal to the state Supreme Court to avoid a negative outcome there that might influence other state courts. On December 2. Court of Appeals ruled that Indianas law banning same sex marriage cannot be used to invalidate a marriage if one spouse later changes his or her gender identity. Federal lawsuitseditFive same sex marriage lawsuits were filed in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in March 2. Love v. Pence, Baskin v. Bogan, Fujii v. Pence, Bowling v. Pence, and Lee v. Pence. Baskin v. BoganeditBaskin v. Bogan was filed in the Southern District of Indiana on March 1. Lambda Legal on behalf on two same sex couples, all women. The defendants were Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and three county clerks, with one of the county clerks, Penny Bogan, in her official capacity, as the first named defendant. It took precedence over the other Indiana marriage cases, because one of the plaintiffs was terminally ill with ovarian cancer, though the case of her and her partner was soon separated from that of the other plaintiffs. On June 2. 5, 2. 01. Judge Richard L. Young ruled with respect to the remaining plaintiffs in Baskin, as well as the cases of Fujii and Lee. He found in favor of the plaintiff couples, granted them summary judgment and striking down Indianas ban on same sex marriage. He also removed Indiana Governor Mike Pence from the lawsuit. He issued no stay and Indiana clerks began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples the day of the ruling. The Seventh Circuit brought license issuance to a halt on June 2. The Seventh Circuit consolidated Baskin and its companion cases with a similar case in Wisconsin, Wolf v. Walker. It heard oral arguments on August 2. On September 4, the Seventh Circuit, in a unanimous opinion authored by Judge Richard Posner, upheld the district courts decision. On September 9, 2. Wisconsin joint by Indiana asked the U. S. Supreme Court to uphold their respective bans on same sex marriage. On September 1. 5, the Seventh Circuit granted a motion for a stay of ruling, to be in effect until the case is resolved at the Supreme Court. The U. S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal in Baskin v. Bogan on October 6, which allowed the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to implement its decision requiring Indiana to license and recognize same sex marriages, effectively legalizing same sex marriage in Indiana. Love v. PenceeditLove v. Pence was filed on March 7, 2. Judge Young dismissed Love v. Pence for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on June 2. Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who cannot, he wrote, issue executive decrees telling other elected officials how to do their jobs when it comes to laws affecting marriage. Judge Young reinstated that part of the suit concerned with the recognition of marriages from other jurisdictions on September 1. Governors memos directing state officials how to respond to other court decisions on the issue of same sex marriage. Bowling v. PenceeditThe plaintiffs in Bowling v. Pence raised only the question of Indianas recognition of same sex marriages from other jurisdictions, not the states refusal to grant marriage licenses to same sex couples. One plaintiff couple was married in Iowa in 2. A third plaintiff sought to dissolve her marriage established elsewhere. Judge Young issued his ruling in Bowling v. Pence on August 1. Though he had previously dismissed Love v. Pence after accepting the arguments of Governor Pence that the Governor of Indiana lacks authority over the enforcement of the states ban, Young reversed himself, citing actions Pence took following the decision to Baskin. Young noted that the Governor, contrary to his earlier claims, had issued memos to state agencies instructing them to disregard the July 2. Marriage License In Indiana Marion County Clerks© 2017