Hawaii lawmakers quickly passed a law banning gay marriage, and advocates of traditional marriage began mobilizing to fight the prospect of gays and lesbians being able to marry. It starts back in 1993, when Hawaii’s Supreme Court found that the state couldn’t deny same-sex couples the right to marry without a “compelling reason” and sent the issue back to the state legislature. Supporters of the same-sex marriage ban in California argue that it’s not just tradition but also biology: “The two sexes are different to the core, and each is necessary – culturally and biologically – for the optimal development of a human being,” Rutgers University sociologist David Popenoe has written.
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Nine states and the District of Columbia now allow same-sex couples to marry, and a dozen others recognize “civil unions” or “domestic partnerships” that grant some of the same benefits without full marriage rights.īut 29 states have added bans on same-sex marriage to their constitutions, including California, the most populous state. There are an estimated 120,000 legally married same-sex couples in the United States. These are no ordinary laws before the Supreme Court: They represent battles over a generations-old concept of marriage and the rights of an increasing number of families in legally recognized gay and lesbian relationships.
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