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Maryland holds a unique place in the history of same-sex marriage in the United States. [6] In 1973, it became the first U.S. state in the nation to define marriage as "a union between a man and a woman", expressly banning same-sex marriage.
Previously, in 1994, a domestic partners registry had been rejected in Baltimore, [81] the Supreme Court of Maryland had ruled, in December 1998, [82] that trial judges cannot make distinctions between gay and straight parents when deciding child custody cases, and in April 2001, [83] a Maryland court ruled that a lesbian mother was a de facto ...
Question 6 (colloquially called the Maryland same-sex marriage referendum) is a referendum that appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. state of Maryland to allow voters to approve or reject the Civil Marriage Protection Act—a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the General Assembly in 2012. The referendum was approved by ...
May 18: The Maryland Court of Appeals rules unanimously in Port v. Cowan that same-sex marriages established in other states are valid. [200] May 31: A unanimous three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the decisions in Gill and Massachusetts that found section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional. [201]
The Montgomery County Courthouse Historic District, designated in 1986, [1] includes several buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockville, Maryland. [2] The two-block district is focused on what remains of Rockville's old commercial, governmental, and residential center, most of which was demolished during urban ...
2012 – A federal appeals court upholds the district court decision that struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage (the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court). [ 5 ] 2012 – North Carolina amends its state constitution by a vote to outlaw both same-sex marriage and polygamy, bringing the total to 30 states that have outlawed ...
The first legally-recognized same-sex marriage occurred in Minneapolis, [3] Minnesota, in 1971. [4] On June 26, 2015, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court overturned Baker v. Nelson and ruled that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to all citizens, and thus legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Marriage in the United States is largely regulated by state laws, though the Supreme Court has the authority to strike down unconstitutional laws (see Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges). All states and the District of Columbia, as well as U.S. territories, require a marriage license issued by local civil authorities.