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Oklahoma Question 711 [3] of 2004, was an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, thus rendering recognition or performance of same-sex marriages or civil unions null within the state prior to its being ruled unconstitutional. The referendum was approved by 76 percent of the voters.
The general marriage age (lacking authorization for an exception) is 18 years of age in all states except Nebraska, where the general marriage age is 19, and Mississippi, where the general marriage age is 21. [1] The general marriage age is commonly the age of majority, though in Alabama the general marriage age is 18 while the age of majority ...
Jan. 1—New laws taking effect today include an increase in the state minimum wage to $14 an hour, gender-neutral language for birth and marriage certificates, and a requirement that Hawaii law ...
In 1993, the Hawaii State Supreme Court ruled in Baehr v. Lewin, 852 P.2d 44 (Haw. 1993), that refusing to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples was discriminatory under that state's constitution. However, the court did not immediately order the state to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples; rather, it remanded the case to ...
Dec. 1—In 1998, 69 % of Hawaii residents supported a constitutional amendment that marriage should be reserved only for opposite-sex genders. Today same-sex marriages have about 70 % support ...
On June 26, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell that state laws banning same-sex marriage violate the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, rendering such laws unconstitutional and invalidating the remaining 14 same-sex marriage bans still being fully or partially enforced.
On December 7, 2011, a same-sex couple filed suit in U.S. district court to obtain a marriage license in Hawaii. The state's denial was based on its marriage laws: Article 1 § 23 of the Hawaii Constitution, which left any decision on same-sex marriage to the Hawaii State Legislature, along with (since repealed) HRS § 572-1, which defined ...
Hawaii's denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples was challenged in court in 1993. In 1994, the state enacted a statute banning same-sex marriage. [ 19 ] In November 1998, the voters of Hawaii voted 70 percent in favor of Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 , which amended the State Constitution to allow the State Legislature to ban same ...