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- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
- GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
* gay marriage votes by state *
Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr. Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law. Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.
California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire. On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote. Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts.
Gay Marriage by State.
GAY MARRIAGE
Hoe legislatn difyg protectns for gay marriage passed spe the fact that a big majory of the Hoe Republin uc opposed . * gay marriage votes by state *
Stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. In the 2020 electn, Nevada beme the first state to regnize gay marriage a state nstutn.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Below are the stat that have legalized gay marriage the orr which they legalized. The followg stat have not legalized gay marriage:. Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay.
"I've ma clear my support for gay marriage years ago. The Rpect for Marriage Act, as is lled, won Senate approval last legislatn won the support of LGBT advot as well as a number of relig anizatns and enti cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, though many Amerin relig nservativ still oppose gay marriage as unter to biblil is narrowly wrten to act as a limed backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, known as Obergefell v. They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.
Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.