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Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 798 N.E.2d 941 (Mass. 2003), is a landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in which the Court held that the Massachusetts Constitution requires the state to legally recognize same-sex marriage.
When asked about "gay marriage" while running to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate in 1994, Mitt Romney said: "it is not appropriate at this time". [18] In December 1996, considering the possibility of Hawaii legalizing same-sex marriage , Weld said that Massachusetts would recognize the validity of same-sex marriages licensed there.
On January 29, 2014, Matthew Barrett represented by GLAD filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination against Fontbonne Academy, a Catholic secondary school, because in July 2013 the school had withdrawn an offer of employment as food service manager when officials learned he was in a same-sex marriage. [50] The ...
According to Gallup polling, public support for gay marriage was 27% in 1996. The Massachusetts lawsuit took from 2001 to a decision in 2003, and in that time statewide support grew.
After the 2003 decision, 36 states and Washington, D.C., followed Massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court ruled remaining state bans on same-sex marriage ...
Hillary, right, and Julie Goodridge, left, lead plaintiffs in the Massachusetts gay marriage lawsuit, get married at Boston City Hall on May 17, 2004. ... The 2015 Supreme Court case, Obergefell v ...
Barrett v. Fontbonne Academy is a Massachusetts Superior Court decision of December 16, 2015, that found that a Roman Catholic secondary school violated the state's laws against discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender when it withdrew an offer of employment from a candidate when officials learned he was in a civil same-sex marriage.
Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003), the court case that legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts (first state to do so in the U.S.) List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 576; Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States; Timeline of same-sex marriage in the United States