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Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) ( / ˈoʊbərɡəfɛl / OH-bər-gə-fel ), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state and the sixth jurisdiction in the world to legalize same-sex marriage following the Supreme Judicial Court's decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health six months earlier. Just as with the Hawaii decision, the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts provoked a ...
United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013), is a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case [ 1][ 2][ 3] concerning same-sex marriage. The Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages, was a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment .
The first legal same-sex marriage ceremony in the United States happened on February 12, 2004 between Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, when mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom ordered city hall to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This decision resulted in the celebration of the first gay marriage in the United States, when Martin and ...
May 17: Same-sex marriage starts in Massachusetts. [89] August 3: Voters in Missouri approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. [90] August 12: The California Supreme Court rules that the same-sex marriages performed in San Francisco in February and March are void. [91]
On November 5, 2008, Proposition 8 goes into effect banning same-sex marriage in the Constitution of California: Connecticut: Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health: October 10, 2008 4 3 Connecticut Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriages must be legal in 30 days. [507] Yes Legalized same-sex marriage in Connecticut on November 12, 2008 Iowa
This article summarizes the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v.Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage in a decision that applies nationwide, with the exception of American Samoa and sovereign tribal nations.
On 26 June 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, thereby making same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States. [73] Prior to 26 June 2015, same-sex marriages were legal in the District of Columbia, Guam, and thirty-six states.