Human Growth and Development / Unit 14 HGD 1966 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marriage Equality: Legal History
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The idea
The Defense of Marriage Act of nineteen ninety-six defined marriage federally as between a man and a woman; the Supreme Court struck down its key section in twenty thirteen.
In practice
Obergefell v. Hodges, decided five to four in twenty fifteen, establishing same-sex marriage nationally.
Where people slip
More than seven hundred ten thousand married same-sex households existed by twenty twenty-one.
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