Jun 27, 2013 · The court ruled unconstitutional a 1996 law denying federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples and effectively permitted gay marriage in California.

Jun 26, 2013 · (Reuters) – Twelve of the 50 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., have legalized gay marriage. The U.S. Supreme Court was expected on Wednesday to issue rulings in two major cases relating to gay marriage. The first three states to allow gay marriage did so because of court rulings permitting it

Same-sex marriage laws differ from state to state. Read about the history of same-sex marriage and which states currently allow it.

Dec 07, 2017 · Countries That Allow Gay Marriage. Australia (2017) On Dec. 7, 2017, the Australian Parliament passed legislation allowing gay …

Same-sex marriage in the United States was initially established on a state-by-state basis, expanding from 1 state in 2004 to 36 states in 2015, when, on June 26, 2015, same-sex marriage was established in all 50 states as a result of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v.

Germany, the largest country in Western Europe by population, has become the 15th European nation to change its laws to allow gay marriage.

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The Supreme Court ruling earlier this year legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide has continued to raise questions about how the decision will affect religious groups – especially those that remain opposed to allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed.

Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v.Hodges, U.S. states passed several different types of state constitutional amendments banning legal recognition of same-sex unions in U.S. state constitutions, referred to by proponents as defense of marriage …