Home Search About Latest news Issues by state Issues by circuit Index of cases Legal Commentary Links Issues by State Select a State From the Map or the Drop-Down Menu Please select... Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut D.C. Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Currently, 30 states have adopted marriage amendments. Only 5 states have neither a statute nor a constitutional provision prohibiting same-sex "marriage": Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Rhode Island. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Vermont are the only states that have legalized same-sex "marriage." Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa leglized same-sex "marriage" are as a result of high court decisions: Goodridge (MA), Kerrigan (CT), and Varnum (IA). New Hampshire and Vermont legalized same-sex "marriage" as a result of legislation. Same-sex "marriage" is also legal in the District of Columbia. New York's high court, the Court of Appeals, ruled in 2006 in Hernandez v. Robles that despite the lack of an explicit definition of marriage in New York, only the union of a man and a woman is a legal marriage, and this limitation is constitutional.
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