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Iowa began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on April 27, 2009 following a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court, making Iowa the fourth [i] U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples may also adopt, and state laws ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing and public ...
On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously upheld the lower court's ruling, making Iowa the third U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. [ a ] Polling suggests that a majority of Iowans support the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, with a 2023 Public Religion Research Institute poll showing that 75% of respondents supported ...
Brien case, which ultimately made same-sex marriage legal in Iowa. According to the Williams Institute, there are more than 4,000 same-sex couples in our state, and many are married.
This state recognizes marriage as inherently a unique relationship between a man and a woman, as prescribed by section 1 of chapter 83 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, being section 551.1 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and therefore a marriage that is not between a man and a woman is invalid in this state regardless of whether the marriage is ...
Iowa residents Kate and Trish Varnum have been legally married for 14 years, but their fears about losing their marriage rights have recently been renewed.
The general marriage age in Puerto Rico is 21 or 18 with parental consent. [33] In Guam, the general age is 18, but 16-year-olds can get married with the consent of at least one parent or guardian. [34] In American Samoa, since September 2018, the marriage age has been 18 for both sexes. Previously, the marriage age for females was 14. [35]
Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009), [1] was an Iowa Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that the state's limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples violated the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. The case had the effect of legally recognizing same-sex marriage in Iowa.
The 2016 hopeful has suggested he would seek to overturn last summer's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the U.S.