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Same-sex marriage rights are sweeping the US. Here's where each state stands.
Vox ^ | November 20, 2014 | German Lopez

Posted on 11/20/2014 9:09:36 AM PST by EveningStar

Update: On November 20, the Supreme Court refused to stay a decision that struck down South Carolina's same-sex marriage ban, allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry starting at noon.

Since 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on same-sex marriage, lower courts have followed with their own decisions effectively ending same-sex marriage bans in several states.

As the decisions pile up, it can get a little difficult to track which same-sex marriage bans are legally valid and which have been overturned. This simple list tracks where each state stands.

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dailykos; ezraklein; gaykkk; germanlopez; homosexualagenda; libertarians; markosmoulitsas; medicalmarijuana; samesexmarriage; ssm; vox
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1 posted on 11/20/2014 9:09:36 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Most of the SEC still prefers heterosexuality.


2 posted on 11/20/2014 9:13:13 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: EveningStar

Sweeping the courtrooms.


3 posted on 11/20/2014 9:13:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: EveningStar

Sweeping apparently means imposed by unelected judicial overloads.


4 posted on 11/20/2014 9:14:04 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: EveningStar

5 posted on 11/20/2014 9:14:51 AM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Genoa

Most of the country does, too. It is the tyrants in black robes who prefer homosexuality.


6 posted on 11/20/2014 9:15:00 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: EveningStar

The USA has become more arrogant, detestable, perverted and morally bankrupt than Sodom and Gomorrah ever were.


7 posted on 11/20/2014 9:15:33 AM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: EveningStar

Judicial tyranny, unchecked, unbalanced by officers of the other branches.

It’s a rebellion against God and nature, and a coup d’etat against the people of the United States.


8 posted on 11/20/2014 9:15:54 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: Last Dakotan

Yep. I don’t think a single state has voted to legalize with a ballot proposal.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 9:16:34 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: cripplecreek

I don’t think so either. Even Minnesota voted to ban it, but the liberals don’t care what the people think, they go to court and put it in front of one of their judges and there you go. That’s what happened to Indiana.


10 posted on 11/20/2014 9:18:35 AM PST by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: defconw

I think the Massachusetts legislature voted to legalize but that’s as close as any state has come to a popular vote on the issue.


11 posted on 11/20/2014 9:20:15 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: cripplecreek
I'm in South Dakota now, but a few years back, we the people voted to ban it in Minnesota. I see it's legal there now. It's a shame really. I think the country is just about lost. That's what happens when dumb people vote in despots.
12 posted on 11/20/2014 9:22:01 AM PST by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: cripplecreek

I think there were a few, maybe a couple more that rejected a popular vote marriage amendment. I think Maryland is one of those approved it by a ballot.

FReegards


13 posted on 11/20/2014 9:22:18 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: EveningStar

As far as I can see, every single move towards same-sex marriage has been due to COURTS.

Sorry to say it, but reform seems impossible. We need a major financial and dollar collapse, to stop the fiat money printing, debt-issuing, interest-rate-controlling-Fed from supporting Progressive, centrally-planned government. Maybe we can rebuild from there. I don’t know.

I see no other way


14 posted on 11/20/2014 9:23:56 AM PST by PGR88
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To: EveningStar

When brought to a vote of the people, they were eliminated at every turn.

But a few judges feel differently, apparently.


15 posted on 11/20/2014 9:25:41 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: EveningStar
I don't think the Founders ever envisioned a handful of hand-picked federal judges over-turning the will of millions of people that voted for traditional marriage.

(Prop 187 in CA. was yet another in a long line of test cases on judicial activism vs. the will of the people, the Feds killed it, the people capitulated to the power of their overlords, and it simply died on the vine)

Even the most flaming progressive probably can't believe they are getting away with it...and(more importantly)it gives them the incentive to see what else they can "fundamentally transform"...in the face of what has become a feckless/weak opposition.

16 posted on 11/20/2014 9:32:20 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Ransomed

‘...Maryland is one of those approved it by a ballot.’

Maine and Washington are the other two.


17 posted on 11/20/2014 9:38:37 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: EveningStar

Not by law and the will of the people, but dictatorial judicial fiat.


18 posted on 11/20/2014 9:41:31 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: EveningStar
What I don't understand is - in most of these States, same sex marriage was prohibited via the ballot box, which was subsequently overturned by legal challenges each and every time.

Marijuana legalization was also legalized via slim majorities at the ballot box yet - I havent heard of one legal challenge to the initiative and it's implementation.

Why is it that each and every same sex marriage initiative was challenged and over turned and not one legalized marijuana initiative?

19 posted on 11/20/2014 9:46:36 AM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: EveningStar

We need a Federal Marriage Amendment to stop judges from legislating.


20 posted on 11/20/2014 9:47:37 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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