Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The bureau estimated that 52% of same-sex couples in the state were married. [49] The 2020 U.S. census showed that there were 10,841 married same-sex couple households (4,485 male couples and 6,356 female couples) and 9,932 unmarried same-sex couple households in Tennessee.
Same-sex marriage has been legal across the United States since the Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in 2015 guaranteed the right to gay and lesbian couples.
If signed into law, it will most likely be challenged in court since same-sex marriage is now a fundamental right, legalized in all 50 states in 2015 — after being affirmed by the U.S. Supreme ...
Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who made national headlines nearly a decade ago for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, is back in the news. Davis and her legal team hope her ...
Legal since 2007. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Tennessee may experience some legal challenges that non- LGBT residents do not. [2] [3] Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in the state since 1996. Marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples in Tennessee since the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v.
Member (s) in charge. Mark Pody. Tennessee House Bill 878 is a proposed state law in the U.S. state of Tennessee, granting an individual the right to refuse to solemnize a marriage if the individual has a religious or conscience-based objection to that partnership. [1] The law was passed in 2024 and signed into law by Governor Bill Lee.
The Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, also known as Tennessee Amendment 1 of 2006, is a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions. The referendum was approved by 81% of voters. It specified that only a marriage between a man and a woman could be legally recognized in the state of Tennessee. This prohibited same-sex marriages ...
In 2006, evangelical preacher Ted Haggard – who had spent years campaigning against equal marriage – resigned from his church after a male prostitute alleged Haggard paid him for sex.