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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Hawaii Constitution, which left any decision on same-sex marriage to the Hawaii State Legislature, along with (since repealed) HRS § 572-1, which defined ...
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 ...
Chapter 2. The marriage relationship - Section 2.001. Marriage license. (a) A man and a woman desiring to enter into a ceremonial marriage must obtain a marriage license from the county clerk of any county of this state. (b) A license may not be issued for the marriage of persons of the same sex. Chapter 6.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Hawaii enjoy the same rights as non- LGBT people. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1973; Hawaii being one of the first six states to legalize it. In 1993, a ruling by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court made Hawaii the first state to consider legalizing same-sex ...
In the United States, the minimum age at which a person can marry in the United States as a right, or with parental consent or other authorization. This age is set by each state and territory, either by statute or where the common law applies. The general marriage age (lacking authorization for an exception) is 18 years of age in all states ...
The Hawaii Marriage Equality Act of 2013 is legislation passed by the Hawaii State Legislature as Senate Bill 1 (SB1) and signed by Governor Neil Abercrombie which legalized same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of Hawaii. [1] Prior to the bill's enactment, same-sex couples in the state of Hawaii were allowed to form civil unions (since 2012) or ...
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The Pew Research Center similarly found 40% in 2010, 50% in 2013 and 61% in 2019. [ 212 ] As of 2016, 83% of Americans aged 18–29 supported same-sex marriage. [ 213 ] As of 2021, there was majority support for same-sex marriage in 47 states, ranging from 50% in South Carolina to 85% in Massachusetts.