Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Same-Sex Marriage Bans in Two States
Published at(SAN FRANCISCO) — The U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit declared same-sex marriage legal in two more states on Tuesday.
One day after the Supreme Court opted to legalize same-sex marriage in five states, the appeals court ruled on a pair of cases that would do the same for Idaho and Nevada.
Both Idaho and Nevada had passed Constitutional amendments preventing same-sex marriage and refusing to recognize such marriages performed in other states. The Ninth Circuit court, however, decided that these laws, “violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because they deny lesbians and gays who wish to marry persons of the same sex a right that they afford to individuals who wish to marry persons of the opposite sex.”
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