It is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage in all fifty states.
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None, however, bans on gay marriage violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Perhaps. The 14th Amendment - the Equal Protection Amendment - might be applicable to strike down laws prohibiting same-sex marriage, but this is something for the US Supreme Court to decide.
The Florida Marriage Amendment, also known as Proposition 2 and The Marriage Protection Amendment, is a constitutional amendment to the Florida Constitution The ballot language says, "This amendment protects marriage as the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife and provides that no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."This proposition passed 62% to 38%.
The nickname for the 14th amendment is the "Equal Protection Amendment."
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment can be used to strike down laws limiting marriage to heterosexual couples only. The 1st Amendment can be used to prevent religious arguments from being used to justify these laws.
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Yes. Same-sex marriage couples should be permitted to marry in Louisiana because they are entitled to equal protection under the law, as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
There is no such amendment as of 2013.
The nature of a marriage is not determined by the Constitution, but by the laws of the state under which it is formed. However, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment might be successfully applied to strike down a law that has an adverse impact on members of minority class, if the state can show no legitimate interest that outweighs the disparate impact.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees equal protection of the law from state to state, so if same-sex marriage is legal in at least one state, another state cannot refuse to recognize the marriage.
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects equal protection under the law. It prohibits states from denying any person within their jurisdiction equal protection of the laws. This amendment has been used to challenge discriminatory laws and practices.