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2006 Virginia Question 1, the Marshall-Newman Amendment (also referred to as the Virginia Marriage Amendment) is an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that defines marriage as solely between one man and one woman and bans recognition of any legal status "approximat[ing] the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage". [3]
The 2006 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 7, 2006, the same day as the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were three constitutional referendums to amend the Virginia State Constitution. Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide ...
The first legally-recognized same-sex marriage occurred in Minneapolis, [3] Minnesota, in 1971. [4] On June 26, 2015, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court overturned Baker v. Nelson and ruled that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to all citizens, and thus legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
William Bradford Wilcox (born 1970) is an American sociologist.He serves as director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, [2] senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. [1]
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Respect for Marriage Act (PDF/details) as enacted in the US Statutes at Large; H.R. 8404 of the 117th Congress (2021-2022) via Congress.gov; H.R. 2523 of the 113th Congress (2013-2015) via Congress.gov; H.R. 1116 of the 112th Congress (2011-2013) via Congress.gov; H.R. 3567 of the 111th Congress (2009-2011) via Congress.gov
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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.