When will supreme court announced ruling on gay marriage
The Journey to Marriage Equality in the United States
The road to nationwide marriage equality was a drawn-out one, spanning decades of United States history and culminating in victory in June 2015. Throughout the long battle for marriage equality, HRC was at the forefront.
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A Growing Dial for Equality
Efforts to legalize same-sex marriage began to pop up across the country in the 1990s, and with it challenges on the state and national levels. Civil unions for queer couples existed in many states but created a separate but equal usual. At the federal level, couples were denied access to more than 1,100 federal rights and responsibilities associated with the institution, as well as those denied by their given state. The Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law in 1996 and defined marriage by the federal government as between a dude and woman, thereby allowing states to deny marriage equality.
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Quick Hits
- June 26, 2025, marked the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s choice recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
- The Obergefell v. Hodges decision had important legal implications for employers’ help plans.
- Existing federal commandment bans discrimination in hiring and firing on the basis of gender individuality and sexual orientation, while twenty-two states and Washington, D.C., also have laws banning workplace discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Ten years ago, the Supreme Court decided in Obergefell v. Hodges to hand all same-sex couples in the Joined States the right to marry. The case arose from challenges to Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee laws that banned same-sex marriages and refused to recognize legally valid same-sex marriages performed in other states.
The Court answered two questions. First, does the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment need states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? Second, does the Constitution require a state to remember a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was licensed lawfully in a alternative state?
On June 26, 2015, t
Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the express House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Morning –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to confront legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal authority and are not binding law, but instead allow legislative bodies to express their collective opinions.
The resolutions in four other states ech
The Supreme Court could overturn its landmark 2015 decree that established a nationwide right to same-sex marriage if a case addressing the matter is brought before it, experts told Newsweek.
Why It Matters
Last month, Idaho lawmakers approved a resolution that called for the Court to undo its Obergefell v. Hodges decision that declared a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry.
After President Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Court in his first term, cementing a 6-3 conservative supermajority, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion. Since then, there have been concerns that the Court's conservative justices could act away with other rights, including the right to same-sex marriage.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two conservative justices who dissented in Obergefell v. Hodges, include suggested that the verdict should be reconsidered.
What To Know
Gallup polling shows that a majority of Americans continue to believe marriage between same-sex couples should be legal (69 percent), though support has declined slightly from the log high of 71 percent recorded in 2022 and
Gay marriage declared legal across the US in historic supreme court ruling
Same-sex marriages are now legal across the entirety of the United States after a historic supreme court judgment that declared attempts by conservative states to bar them unconstitutional.
In what may prove the most essential civil rights case in a generation, five of the nine court justices determined that the right to marriage equality was enshrined under the equivalent protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Victory in the case – known as Obergefell v Hodges, after an Ohio man who sued the state to get his name listed on his late husband’s death certificate – capped years of campaigning by LGBT rights activists, high-powered attorneys and couples waiting decades for the justices to rule. It immediately led to scenes of jubilation from coast to coast, as campaigners, politicians and everyday people – gay, straight and in-between – hailed “a victory of love”.
The ruling, in which Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote,means the number of states where gay marriage is legal will rise – albeit after some stalling – from 37 to 50.
“They ask for same dignity in the eyes of the law,” Kennedy wrote in
Quick Hits
- June 26, 2025, marked the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s choice recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
- The Obergefell v. Hodges decision had important legal implications for employers’ help plans.
- Existing federal commandment bans discrimination in hiring and firing on the basis of gender individuality and sexual orientation, while twenty-two states and Washington, D.C., also have laws banning workplace discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Ten years ago, the Supreme Court decided in Obergefell v. Hodges to hand all same-sex couples in the Joined States the right to marry. The case arose from challenges to Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee laws that banned same-sex marriages and refused to recognize legally valid same-sex marriages performed in other states.
The Court answered two questions. First, does the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment need states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? Second, does the Constitution require a state to remember a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was licensed lawfully in a alternative state?
On June 26, 2015, t
Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the express House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Morning –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to confront legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal authority and are not binding law, but instead allow legislative bodies to express their collective opinions.
The resolutions in four other states ech
The Supreme Court could overturn its landmark 2015 decree that established a nationwide right to same-sex marriage if a case addressing the matter is brought before it, experts told Newsweek.
Why It Matters
Last month, Idaho lawmakers approved a resolution that called for the Court to undo its Obergefell v. Hodges decision that declared a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry.
After President Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Court in his first term, cementing a 6-3 conservative supermajority, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion. Since then, there have been concerns that the Court's conservative justices could act away with other rights, including the right to same-sex marriage.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two conservative justices who dissented in Obergefell v. Hodges, include suggested that the verdict should be reconsidered.
What To Know
Gallup polling shows that a majority of Americans continue to believe marriage between same-sex couples should be legal (69 percent), though support has declined slightly from the log high of 71 percent recorded in 2022 and
Gay marriage declared legal across the US in historic supreme court ruling
Same-sex marriages are now legal across the entirety of the United States after a historic supreme court judgment that declared attempts by conservative states to bar them unconstitutional.
In what may prove the most essential civil rights case in a generation, five of the nine court justices determined that the right to marriage equality was enshrined under the equivalent protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Victory in the case – known as Obergefell v Hodges, after an Ohio man who sued the state to get his name listed on his late husband’s death certificate – capped years of campaigning by LGBT rights activists, high-powered attorneys and couples waiting decades for the justices to rule. It immediately led to scenes of jubilation from coast to coast, as campaigners, politicians and everyday people – gay, straight and in-between – hailed “a victory of love”.
The ruling, in which Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote,means the number of states where gay marriage is legal will rise – albeit after some stalling – from 37 to 50.
“They ask for same dignity in the eyes of the law,” Kennedy wrote in