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2. Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   The number of marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts leveled off at about 1,500 a year in 2006 and 2007. They represented about 4% of all marriages in the state. [ 166 ] A total of 22,406 same-sex marriages were performed in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2012, mostly in Barnstable , Middlesex and Suffolk counties. [ 167 ]

3. LGBTQ rights in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   Massachusetts authorized same-sex marriages within the state following the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling on November 18, 2003 in Goodridge v.Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the state Constitution for state agencies to restrict marriage to homosexual couples.

4. MassEquality - Wikipedia

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   MassEquality is a Boston-based organization that seeks to promote LGBT rights in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.It supported the implementation of Goodridge v.. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's 2003 decision that legalized same-sex marriage, and opposed efforts to adopt an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution seeking to limit the impact of ...

5. Massachusetts marks 20 years of gay marriage. What do Cape ...

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   Friday marks 20 years since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision took effect allowing same-sex couples the freedom to marry. ... public support for gay marriage was 27% in 1996. The ...

6. 20 years ago, same-sex marriage in Massachusetts opened a ...

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   After the 2003 decision, 36 states and Washington, D.C., followed Massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court ruled remaining state bans on same-sex marriage ...

7. Vital statistics (government records) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...