{"id":3967,"date":"2013-06-27T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2013-06-27T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T04:42:37","slug":"same-sex-marriage-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-Sex Marriage by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/state-policies-on-same-sex-marriage-2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3968\" alt=\"state policies on same sex marriage 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/state-policies-on-same-sex-marriage-2013.png\" width=\"923\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/state-policies-on-same-sex-marriage-2013.png 923w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/state-policies-on-same-sex-marriage-2013-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/state-policies-on-same-sex-marriage-2013-436x300.png 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-gay-marriage.html?_r=0\">stroke down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)<\/a> on June 26th, 2013 ruling in favor of recognition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2013\/06\/26\/supreme-courts-doma-ruling-comes-as-majority-now-supports-same-sex-marriage\/\">same-sex marriage<\/a> by the federal government in states where it is already legal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To date, 12 states have already legalized same-sex marriage: Massachusetts (first state to do so in 2003), Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state, Maine, and Iowa. The District of Columbia also legalized gay marriage. Additionally, 8 states have certain legal provisions and civil unions for gay couples: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several states are still against\u00a0same-sex marriage, and 29 of them amended their constitutions to ban it.<\/p>\n<p>For the interactive map, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/features.pewforum.org\/same-sex-marriage-state-by-state\/\"><em>Pew Research Center: Same-Sex Marriage State-by-State<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court stroke down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on June 26th, 2013 ruling in favor of recognition of same-sex marriage by the federal government in states where it is already legal. To date, 12 states have already legalized same-sex marriage: Massachusetts (first state to do so in 2003), Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Same-Sex Marriage by State' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/27\/same-sex-marriage-by-state\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,32,21,14],"tags":[82,1114,1110,1115,1111,1079,1078,1080,1122,1121,1067,1116,542,1117,1118,438,1119,1113,1112,428,1120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}