Posted on 03/22/2017 5:18:09 PM PDT by markomalley
A Native American tribe in Oklahoma has voted to allow same-sex marriage, joining a small group of prominent tribes changing their law in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2015 decision making the practice legal in all states.
The same-sex case known as Obergefell v Hodges has rippled through the 567 federally recognized Indian Nations. As sovereign entities, they are not necessarily bound by the Supreme Court decision, leaving many in the precarious position of trying to decide whether to make the hot-button issue part of their traditional law.
"Tribes don’t have to follow Obergefell. Tribes should, unless they have a good reason not to," said Robert Clinton, a professor specializing in tribal law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Unofficial results of Monday’s special election in the Osage Nation in northern Oklahoma showed 52 percent approved a referendum amending the definition of marriage in the tribe’s legal code to include same-sex couples, officials said this week.
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“What makes the red man red”?
Chief Stuffing Bottom was the deciding vote.
Henry Gray has a lot of faggot family members? Now we know who he was abused by, creating his predilection.
Texas won’t fall into the Gulf of Mexico because Oklahoma sucks....
“Speaking not only thing he does with forked tongue.”
In before the gay Indian in “Little Big Man” post.
Osage - the rainbow tribe.
Hemonee rights!
He wasn’t gay, he was a Hemonee, and he was a goodun too
“We smoke ‘um peace pipe.”
On the down-low in the sweat lodge, kemosabe.
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