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On 22 December 2014, a proposed amendment to the Civil Code to legalize same-sex marriage went under review by the Judiciary Committee. If the amendment had passed the committee stage it would have been voted on at the plenary session of the Legislative Yuan in 2015. The amendment, called the marriage equality amendment, would have inserted ...
1 August: The Supreme Court of Mexico declares same-sex marriage to be legal in the state of Puebla. 4 August: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Tristan da Cunha. 1 September: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Malta. A bill for legalization passed Parliament on 12 July and was signed by the President on 1 August.
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024, [update] marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 36 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
Gallup found that nationwide public support for same-sex marriage reached 50% in 2011, [6] 60% in 2015, [7] and 70% in 2021. [8] In the 2020 United States census, same-sex married couples accounted for 0.5% of all U.S. households while unmarried same-sex couples accounted for 0.4% of all U.S. households.
Same-sex marriage in Slovenia has been legal since 9 July 2022 in accordance with a ruling from the Constitutional Court of Slovenia. On 3 March 2015, the Assembly passed the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in a 51–28 vote. Opponents of the bill launched a petition for a referendum and managed to collect 40,000 signatures.
Slovenia became the latest country to approve same-sex marriage on October 4, 2022, after the court struck down the country's ban in July. The 32 countries around the world where same-sex marriage ...
No. Notes: 1 On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that a fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the Fourteenth Amendment, and that states must allow same-sex marriage. 2 Subsequently, repealed.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The decades-long debate about whether same-sex marriage should be allowed in the United States was finally settled Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled gay and lesbian ...