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In 2006, Missouri codified the legality of same-sex sexual activity into its statutory law. Missouri recognizes same-sex marriages. A state court ruling striking down Missouri's same-sex marriage ban ordered the City of St. Louis to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. St.
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 ...
The law came after The Star revealed that Missouri had among the nation’s loosest marriage law for 15-year-olds. It previously allowed children even younger to marry with a judge’s approval .
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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 ...
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.
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.
Interfaith marriage, sometimes called interreligious marriage or "mixed marriage", is marriage between spouses professing different religions. Although interfaith marriages are often established as civil marriages , in some instances they may be established as a religious marriage .