Tuesday, April 7, 2009
This data may be of interest. Please alert me to inaccuracies.
As of April 2009, four states recognize
same-sex marriage: Connecticut, Iowa,
Massachusetts, and Vermont; three states recognize same-sex unions (i.e., civil
unions for same-sex couples): California, New Hampshire, and New Jersey; and five more jurisdictions have
enacted domestic partnerships laws that grant many or all of the benefits of
marriage to registered domestic partners:
Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, Washington State, and the District of Columbia. According to a 2007 Pew Research Center survey, a bare
majority Americans (55%) opposes, and a significant minority (36%) supports,
recognizing same-sex marriage. However,
a bare majority of Americans (54%) supports, and a large minority (42%)
opposes, civil unions for same-sex couples, according to a 2006 Pew survey.
During the ten-year period from 1998 to
2008, voters in twenty-nine states approved state constitutional bans on
same-sex "marriage". However,
some of these bans are limited: They do
not forbid states to extend the benefit of law to same-sex unions; they forbid
only calling such unions "marriage".
See "States With Voter-Approved Constitutional Bans on Same-Sex
Marriage, 1998-2008," http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=370.
As of April 2009, seven countries--the Netherlands (since 2000), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), and Sweden (2009)--recognize same-sex marriage.
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