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Issues
by State
- 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 and Connecticut are the only states that have legalized same-sex "marriage," as a result of the 2003 Goodridge ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts and the 2008 Kerrigan ruling in Connecticut.
- 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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