Has any state actually voted for this garbage, or has every state been done by activist judges?
RE: Has any state actually voted for this garbage, or has every state been done by activist judges?
Maryland’s legislature PASSED a law FOR gay marriage.
On January 1, 2013, the Civil Marriage Protection Act took effect, and same-sex marriage in Maryland became legal.
In my state — NY, A bill permitting same-sex marriage was passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on June 24, 2011; it took effect on July 24, 2011.
On May 2, 2013, Lincoln Chafee signed legislation making Rhode Island the tenth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
On 13 February 2012, Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire signed a measure legalizing same-sex marriage that would go into effect on 7 June 2012 unless a referendum with sufficient petition signatures were filed.
Washington Referendum 74 (2012) was successfully filed in opposition to this law and appeared on the general election ballot on 6 November.
Voters APPROVED the referendum, making same-sex marriage legal in the state of Washington. The law allowing same-sex marriage went into effect on 6 December, and the first same-sex marriage licenses were issued 9 December.
Maine, Maryland and Washington State all passed gay marriage by referendum and that will probably be the end of it. There's no point anymore for gay marriage proponents to try to raise the money needed to rally voters to pass future pro-gay marriage laws since judges are doing their work for free these days.
State legislatures passed laws legalizing gay marriage in Vermont, New Hampshire, District of Columbia, New York, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, Hawaii and Illinois.
Voters approved gay marriage via referendums in California, Washington, Maine, and Maryland.
Court decisions are responsible for gay marriage in Massachusetts, Iowa,
New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
The issue is in the courts in Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, Michigan, Idaho and Arkansas.