As of June 26, 2015, all 50 states in the U.S. are required to both grant
and recognize same-sex marriages as legal civil marriages. The decision
regarding the
Obergefell v. Hodges case was made by the U.S. Supreme Court in a close 5-4 vote.
In the case syllabus, it was declared that the right to marry is something
that is fundamental to a person’s liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment.
While the vote was narrow, it now requires all 14 states that previously
had banned same-sex marriage to lift their ruling.
This affects the following states: Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, most of Missouri, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska and Kentucky.
To read more about this ruling and what it could mean for those seeking
same-sex marriages in the U.S., check out this article from
CNN.
