Florida gay marriage ban

Florida was the 35th U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. Florida passed a statute banning same-sex marriage in and added a prohibition on the recognition of marriages from other jurisdictions in Voters approved a constitutional amendment that banned both same-sex marriage and civil unions in

By Rene Stutzman. Florida's ban on gay marriage was overturned Thursday by a judge in the Keys, the first ruling on a series of lawsuits aiming to legalize same-sex marriage. Circuit Judge Luis Garcia in Monroe County ruled that a 6-year-old provision in the Florida Constitution outlawing same-sex marriage violates the U.

SB Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex GENERAL BILL by Polsky Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex; Repealing provisions relating to marriage between persons of the same sex; deleting a prohibition on the recognition of same-sex marriages; deleting a prohibition on the state and its agencies and subdivisions giving effect to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding that.

Hodges has some important effects on Florida same-sex couples. Now that same-sex marriage is legal everywhere in the U. In , Florida voters voted to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

The Supreme Court struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples. It also left intact a lower court ruling overturning California's gay marriage ban. The rulings didn't address gay marriage bans in other states such as Florida, where voters approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.

On January 6, about 5 months earlier, the freedom for same-sex couples to legally marry had already become effective in the State of Florida. Even so, a Florida gay marriage case had remained on appeal to the 11th U. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.