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As provided in Article 17, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution, [9] a proposed constitutional amendment is placed on the ballot only after the Texas legislature has proposed the amendment in a joint resolution of both the Texas senate and the Texas house of representatives. The joint resolution may originate in either chamber.
On November 8, 2005, Texas voters approved Proposition 2, a constitutional amendment that amended the Constitution of Texas to define marriage as consisting "only of the union of one man and one woman" and prohibiting the state or any political subdivision of the state from creating or recognizing "any legal status identical or similar to ...
On February 26, a U.S. District Court struck down Texas's ban on same-sex marriage and stayed the ruling pending appeal. March 2014 - On March 4, several Illinois counties began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couple after an opinion issued by the state attorney general. This was ahead of a law scheduled to take effect statewide on June 1.
14 May: The Justice's National Council of Brazil legalizes same-sex marriage in the entire country by a 14–1 vote, making Brazil the third country in South America, after Argentina and Uruguay, and fifteenth in the world to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. The same-sex marriage was already legal in 12 states and the Federal District.
(1) Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman. (2) No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect. Utah Code - Title 30. Husband and Wife - Chapter 01. Marriage; 30-1-4.1. Marriage recognition policy.
Proposed Amendment 1 [56] (a) Marriage shall be constituted by one man and one woman only. All other marriages are declared to be contrary to the public policy of this state and are void. (b) No relationship, other than a marriage, shall be recognized by the state as entitling the parties to the rights or incidents of marriage. [57] Texas: 2005 ...
Texas, sodomy was a criminal offense in Texas, termed "deviate sexual intercourse". [6] [7] As of 2023, Texas is one of the three states where dormant sodomy laws only apply to same-sex acts, alongside Kentucky and Kansas. [8] [9] Several bills repealing the sodomy bans have been introduced since Lawrence, but none of them made it past the ...
Michael McConnell and Jack Baker [3] [4] are the first same sex couple in modern recorded history [5] known to obtain a marriage license, [6] have their marriage solemnized, which occurred on September 3, 1971, in Minnesota, [7] and have it legally recognized by any form of government. [8] [9] Historians variously trace the beginning of the ...