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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 2014
Page
12
Micah Hurtt a USC Aiken senior 21 says he wants to marry his partner in South Carolina. He explains marriage equality reduces stigma and offers personal freedom to hold hands and belong. He notes DOMA repeal and broader legalization push toward state level change and equal rights.
Julie and Ann wed in 1995 at Temple Sinai in Sarasota in a healing ceremony amid the AIDS era, the first mainstream gay wedding in the South's reform movement. They later wed in Massachusetts in 2008 after DOMA changes, seeking federal recognition and protection. They stress civil rights over special rights and affirm lasting love.
South Carolina bans same sex marriage though private contracts and health care powers for partners are allowed. Ann Willbrand of Aiken hopes federal cases will overturn the 2006 amendment. Federal recognition of same sex marriage creates tax filing tensions when couples reside in states that do not honor it.
The state faces federal challenges to its same sex marriage ban. Willbrand notes tax and filing complications for couples, while S.C. Equality pursues injunctions in Charleston and Columbia cases. Nekki Shutt cites cross state precedents and constitutional arguments. Teddy Kulmala.
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