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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tammy Webber

Same-sex couples wary despite federal marriage rights bill

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Mary and Sharon Bishop-Baldwin were jubilant after winning a decadelong fight for the right to wed in Oklahoma.

But eight years after tying the knot — on the day they won their lawsuit challenging a state ban on gay marriage — and seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed same-sex couples' constitutional right to marry, they no longer take their union for granted.

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