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The Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act, which added nearly all the state rights and responsibilities of marriage to domestic partnerships was signed in 2003 and took effect in 2005. Couples in state registered domestic partnerships prior to 2005 who remained registered on January 1, 2005, became entitled to the rights and ...
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.
Oklahoma and Bishop v. United States), was stayed pending appeal. [1] On July 18, 2014, a panel of the Tenth Circuit upheld Kern's ruling overturning Oklahoma's same-sex marriage ban. However, the panel put its ruling on hold pending disposition of a petition for certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court. On October 6, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
An appeals court has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit targeting Oklahoma's ban on gender-neutral birth certificates, which was put into place by an executive order issued by Gov. Kevin Stitt.
The provisions of the act include: [4] Amending Oklahoma Statutes 63-1-311 (Birth certificates), 63-1-313 (Delayed birth certificate), 63-1-316 (New certificate of birth), and 63-1-321 (Amendment of certificate or record) to not allow any symbol representing a non-binary marker to be used as the biological sex designation on a birth certificate.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma law prohibiting transgender people from changing their birth certificates to match their gender identity. The three-judge ...
Four civil rights organizations and an Oklahoma law firm said they made a joint request for records Friday, seeking information from the Oklahoma State Department of Education about state schools ...
Oklahoma permits adoption by a couple or an unmarried adult without regard to sexual orientation. [10] In August 2007, years before Oklahoma began allowing same-sex marriage, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Finstuen v. Crutcher ordered Oklahoma to recognize an adoption by a same-sex couple. The child had been born in Oklahoma ...