West Virginia Marriage Laws: What the State Constitution says…
A public act, record or judicial proceeding of any other state, territory, possession or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of the other state, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship, shall not be given effect by this state.
West Virginia Stat. 48 1 18a
Source: West Virginia State Constitution
I just came out at my high school and already have lost a lot of my friends, i am getting death threats and being bullied more than ever. West Virginia is a lousy place to live…
I also am a West Virginia citizen. I am In a gay relationship with a women and have been for 6 years. Both of us work for the state yet we have no rights in the place we call "home". We love and support West Virginia and its beautiful hills but i think its time we come to the twenty first century and allow people to live equal! Just Live to Love!
and we take the responsiblity of what u didnt want i dont care what u say i think we should have equal rights cuz me personaly me and my girlfriend wanna have a kid and call both of us mommy cuz it takes a man and a women to make a baby and odviously u waznt gud enoph for the job so next time u wanna say thats not right just remember were humans too that like the same sex and we love the kids straight people gave away leave judgements to your self if u waz brought up as a kid sayin if u dont have nuthing nice to say dont say nuthing at all or treat others how u wanna b treated and thats equally or love and be loved and judgement is the worst thing u can say but my mommy allways told me people gonna say things a judge u every day but keep ur head up and turn the cheak cuz thay dont know wat there missing i love girls im am gay and proud of it if u dont like it tough u just mad cuz u dont have the same love connection with ur man or woman lol
im from wv and im am gay female and i think we sould have the right to marry our loved ones ok so i date a female am i hurting u no is i pain to c us no so y r u judgeing my by what i love u marry the man of your dreams but i cant marry the woman of mine dreams you scream its a sin aginst it all blah blah look we r humans like u r we are theres nothing i can do to u that u cant do to me . as long as i know my mother and father told we wha't to do so how the goverment or strangers tells us who we can love u marry the man of ur dreams we r not mean we say congratulations on another step in life but when we wanna get married no its a sin its the law the cant tell u who to marry or to love y do people judge people on there sexuality its not right we done nothing to u to hurt u or affend u so y do we get little say on what we wanna do y do u say things like that were humans witj feelings and u hurt them with words from ur mouth but we dont say nothing at all. ok we help with kids and people thats has no mom or dad
Just so that it is said WV has one of the largest gay cities (per-capita) in the US. Parkersburg. I agree with Tera i grew up here and when i came out in HS it was ruff but having lived other places since and moved back. Its not bad here at all. As far as gay marriage goes no doubt it should be legal 9 if only because of the legal benefits and access that it gives). However, how many gay couples do you know that have been in long term relationships spanning decades? We as a community are asking for something we show no need for. Its like a 5 year old askin for a dog saying ill take care of it.
I use to go to Cabell Midland High school in West Virginia now i live with my mom in Pennsylvania and i use to live it Georgia. West Virginia the part I live in around Marshall University. I had a lesbian couple that live nera me that had kids. Cabell Midland has a GSA there where many members both gay and straight most people where out we had transgender people there and no one made a big deal about it. Rednecks did not make a big deal about it. In Pennsylvania and Georgia are a different case
I use to go to Cabell Midland High school in West Virginia now i live with my mom in Pennsylvania and i use to live it Georgia. West Virginia the part I live in around Marshall University. I had a lesbian couple that live nera me that had kids. Cabell Midland has a GSA there where many members both gay and straight most people where out we had transgender people there and no one made a big deal about it. Rednecks did not make a big deal about it. In Pennsylvania and Georgia are a diiffern case
Daniel, please don't hate all of West Virginia. Yes a big portion of West Virginians are insensitive, redneck, hillbilly, hicks but a good bit of West Virginia isn't a bunch of rednecks. I'm 13 years old, and I am more mature then the rest of the hicks in West Virginia. (I'm not gay, and I'm from West Virginia.) Gays should have rights! It's just despicable that gays don't have rights. That's all I have to say.
West Virginia can't even recognize marriages of same sex couples from other states!? THIS IS NOT A BLUE STATE…. WHY DO THE STATE POLITICIANS PRETEND TO BE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?!
EQUALITY NOW!
hateful, evil, and pernicious. GAY RIGHTS NOW! NO RIGHTS = NO TAXES! I'M TIRED OF BEING A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.