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The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the state's sodomy statute was unconstitutional in 1996 in the case of Campbell v. Sundquist. [4]In November 2023, the city of Murfreesboro within Rutherford County, Tennessee formally removed "homosexuality" from its local ordinance that criminalizes it [5] [6] after being ordered to do so by U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw on ...
In 2020, the United States Census Bureau determined that same-sex couples (3.1%) are three times more likely to have adopted children than opposite-sex couples (1.1%). Data from 2019 revealed that 43.3% of same-sex couples’ children were adopted and/or stepchildren.
The highest Pride Score in Nashville was given to zip code 37206, an area that largely consists of East Nashville. [2] Along with East Nashville, Church Street is commonly known as "the center of gay life in Nashville." [3] 2nd/4th Avenues are also considered LGBT friendly parts of Nashville. [3]
A civil rights group is raising questions about the legality of a Tennessee proposal that would assure continued taxpayer funding of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies even if they ...
A Jewish couple sued Tennessee in 2022 after a Christian adoption agency blocked them from state-mandated foster care training.
In 1996, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted a statute banning same-sex marriages. [4] This ban was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2015. On May 6, 2004, the House of Representatives approved Amendment 1, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, by a vote of 85–5.
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Adult adoption was the only means to legally recognise family relationships in countries and states where same-sex marriage was illegal. Two of the motives for same-sex adult adoption were to legally express their commitment to one another [4] and as a means of giving the adopted individual the states of heir at law. [6]