2011, more than 50 percent of Americans believed the opposite, saying thathomosexualcouples should be recognized by law. 2015 saw a spike in support, and on June 26 of that year, the United States Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states in the case of Obergefell v. ...
By this time, it was still outlawed in only 13 states, and more than 20 other countries had already legalized gay marriage, starting with the Netherlands in December 2000. Chile became the most recent country to legalize same-sex marriage in December 2021. ...
A decade after same-sex marriage was legalized nationally, a Massachusetts group that promotes anti-LGTBQ positions is helping coordinate efforts in several states calling for the landmark ruling to be overturned. The Waltham-based group MassResistance said it helped author a resolution approved Monda...
Herring just declared that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional (via The Associated Press). But, like in Oklahoma and Utah, same-sex couples won't be able to get married there until the state makes a final decision on the legality of gay marriage....
Instead, advocates of gay marriage have largely relied on "equal rights" arguments or claims based on substantive due process and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to make the case that gay marriage should be legalized. In an effort to address the religious underpinnings of ...
Legislatively, Massachusetts has paved the way for other states: It led the way in universal health care coverage, with a plan enacted in 2006 that inspired former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. It was also the first state to legalize gay marriage and the second to pass discr...
US District Judge Carlton Reeves wrote that the title, text and history of the law show it is “the state’s attempt to put LGBT citizens back in their place” in response to last summer’s Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide. ...
The progressive city passed the boycott in 2016 after the U.S. Supreme Court legalizedsame-sex marriagenationwide. At first, the boycott applied only to states it considered restricted the rights of LGBTQ people. Later, the list was expanded to include states that limit access to voting and ab...
The development effectively raises the number of states with legal same-sex marriage from 19 to 30 -- a majority of U.S. states -- and means that as many as 60 percent of Americans will be living in states that have legalized the practice. ...
Though gambling was outlawed in 1909, it was prevalent in the early Nevada mining towns that dominated the state economy. By 1931, however, it was legalized once again, just a few days after the federal government presented construction plans for the Hoover Dam, the largest in the world at ...