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Bookmark or Share- Amendment J passes: Colorado voters strike same-sex marriage banThe legislature tried a third time in 2000, and Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, signed a law banning same-sex marriage. Then, in 2006, Colorado voters passed Amendment 43, by 56% to 44%, adding the provision to the state constitution that recognized only marriages “between one man and one woman.”. Thank you for trusting The Colorado Sun for ...
- Same-sex marriage gains constitutional protections as California voters ...When they first met in 1996 federal law prohibited same-sex marriage, and in 2000, California voters passed a proposition outlawing the practice in the state too. Laroche and Laudon still wanted ...
- Colorado Amendment J Election Results: Remove Same-Sex Marriage Ban ...This amendment would remove obsolete language from the state Constitution that only recognized "a union of one man and one woman." race called Live analysis of the results › Nearly every county ...
- LGBTQ+ Marriage Is Legal, but It’s Back on the Ballot in Three StatesThese three states are the first to bring the question of marriage equality to voters after Obergefell. Most states still have a constitutional ban or a statute outlawing same-sex marriage.While the 2015 Obergefell decision currently supersedes those bans, they would come back into play if the Supreme Court ever revisited its 2015 decision (three, including Hawaii, are technically unenforceable).
- California and Colorado voters protect same-sex marriageSame-sex marriages became legal nationwide in 2015, but with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there are concerns that something similar could happen to the legality of same-sex unions.
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