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Some Minnesota counties announced plans to make marriage licenses available as early as June 6. [33] The law took effect on July 1, 2013, and Minnesota has recognized the validity of same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions since then. The state began issuing its own marriage licenses to same-sex couples on August 1, 2013. [34]
State voters rejected a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in 2012, and subsequently, the Minnesota Legislature passed legislation to open marriage to same-sex couples the following year, over forty years after McConnell and Baker had applied for a marriage license. Minnesota became the 12th state in the country to legalize same ...
Minnesota Amendment 1 (also called Minnesota Marriage Amendment [3] or Minnesota Gay Marriage Amendment [4]) was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment proposed to ban marriage between same-sex couples in the state of Minnesota, that appeared on the ballot on November 6, 2012. It was rejected by 51.19% of voters.
A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...
Richard John Baker v. Gerald R. Nelson, 291 Minn. 310, 191 N.W.2d 185 (1971), was a case in which the Minnesota Supreme Court decided that construing a marriage statute to restrict marriage licenses to persons of the opposite sex "does not offend" the U.S. Constitution. [2]
McConnell and Baker applied [16] for a marriage license. [62] After the Clerk of District Court refused their request, they filed a "motion for the issuance of a writ of mandamus to require . . . the Clerk . . . to issue a marriage license . . ." [63] Denial in the lower court [64] was affirmed by the Minnesota Supreme Court. [65]
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents.The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in different subnational jurisdictions.
Quatrefoil Library is a member-supported, 501(c)(3) non-profit [2] library and community center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. [3] It is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where it was founded by David Irwin and Dick Hewetson in 1983. [4]