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Adoption of marriage amendments over time. Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v.Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning legal recognition of same-sex unions in U.S. state constitutions, referred to by proponents as "defense of marriage amendments" or "marriage protection amendments."
North Carolina Amendment 1 (often referred to as simply Amendment 1) is a partially overturned legislatively referred constitutional amendment in North Carolina that (until overruled in federal court) amended the Constitution of North Carolina to add ARTICLE XIV, Section 6, which prohibit the state from recognizing or performing same-sex ...
My NC family is grateful to Senators Tillis and Burr for protecting same-sex marriage. | Letters to the editor
The secretary of state maintains offices in the Revenue Building (pictured) at 2 S Salisbury St. in Raleigh. [13] The secretary of state is a constitutional officer. [14] Article III, Section 7, of the Constitution of North Carolina stipulates the popular election of the secretary of state every four years.
In 2012, North Carolina passed Amendment One, the last state constitutional amendment in the country to ban same-sex marriage. Tillis, at the time, was state House speaker.
Sen. Tillis honored the values of the majority of North Carolinians by voting to protect marriage rights. | Letters to the editor
Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. [1] Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.
A bill was submitted on Tuesday which aims to make gay marriage illegal in North Carolina.