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Constitutional Amendment 2 of 2004 is an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that prohibited same-sex marriages from being recognized in Missouri.The Amendment passed via public referendum on August 3, 2004, with 71% of voters supporting and 29% opposing. [3]
Until 2006, Missouri law defined "deviate sexual intercourse" as "any act involving the genitals of one person and the hand, mouth, tongue, or anus of another person or a sexual act involving the penetration, however slight, of the male or female sex organ or the anus by a finger, instrument or object done for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any person."
In August 2004, 71% of Missouri voters ratified Amendment 2, which restricted the validity and recognition of marriage in Missouri to the "union of one man and one woman". [3] [4] State statutes also banned same-sex marriage. [5] In December 2022, Representative Chris Sander introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the ban. Sander said ...
If the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn the right to same-sex marriage, both states would be able to refuse to issue marriage licenses, but would have to recognize legal, out-of-state marriages.
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Thanks to a Kansas City Star investigation exposing the issue, the Missouri General Assembly eventually changed the law. Now the state forbids marriage licenses to anyone under the age of 16, and ...
This article summarizes the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v.Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage in a decision that applies nationwide, with the exception of American Samoa and sovereign tribal nations.
“I think a lot of folks just don’t know that in Missouri, that this is what the laws are.” Missouri GOP lawmaker was married at 15. She now wants to ban all child marriages