In June of 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. This timele highlights the chang state polici leadg up to that lg.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
- STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- GAY MARRIAGE
GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
* how many states allow gay marriage in 2015 *
Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. Over the last two years, the number of stat thorizg gay marriage had expand rapidly bee of legislative cisns, referendums or urt orrs.
Gay Marriage State by State: From a Few Stat to the Whole Natn. In 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken.
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
The bans on gay marriage 13 stat across Ameri have been led unnstutnal. * how many states allow gay marriage in 2015 *
Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.
STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
A graphed timele of 1994-2015 of when gay marriage was legalized each state of the US, and when was banned. * how many states allow gay marriage in 2015 *
Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans.
As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs. "Jtice Alo asked, well then why not marry four gay men together?
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns. Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. Ernment to provi the same benefs to both gay and heterosexual upl.
GAY MARRIAGE
In a landmark cisn, the ne jtic of the US Supreme Court led that the US Constutn guarante marriage as a right for all, cludg gay and lbian upl.
Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote.