Approves california gay legislature marriage

In California, Gay and Lesbian couples may legally marry. Supreme Court has told the states that the inmates in their prisons must be permitted to marry. The Future of Autos. Introduced by Assemblyman Nelson Araujo, D-Las Vegas, AJR2 also would repeal a constitutional provision passed by voters in that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. And in September , the California Assembly became the first state legislature in the nation to deliberately approve same-sex marriages. There is precedent in California for handling such a situation. But given that, as has been described, lesbian and gay people live in committed relationships, do have children and are raising them and that there are civil unions that are recognized by the state — and that the state recognizes the marriages of people who are step parenting and the other non-socially science validated ways of raising children. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

Massachusetts Legislature defeats proposal at second constitutional convention to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage but allow civil unions. Supporters of same-sex marriage wait for the ruling, which left key details to the Legislature. The Rhode Island Supreme Court, in a decision, rules that a lesbian couple who had married in Massachusetts could not be divorced in Rhode Island because the state defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman.