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By April 18, 2016, more than 9,200 same-sex couples had received marriage licenses in Cook County (from February 2014), with projections that the number of marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples would reach over 10,000 by summer 2016. The 10,000th same-sex marriage license in Cook County was issued on August 31, 2016. [81]
On February 21, 2014, a federal judge authorized Cook County to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples without waiting for the Illinois statute legalizing same-sex marriage to take effect on June 1, and the county clerk began issuing licenses immediately. [21] [22]
The number of marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts leveled off at about 1,500 a year in 2006 and 2007. They represented about 4% of all marriages in the state. [ 166 ] A total of 22,406 same-sex marriages were performed in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2012, mostly in Barnstable , Middlesex and Suffolk counties. [ 167 ]
Friday marks 20 years since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision took effect allowing same-sex couples the freedom to marry. ... public support for gay marriage was 27% in 1996. The ...
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 ...
When same-sex marriage was legalized in the U.S., opponents said it would undermine traditional marriage and destabilize families. So what actually happened? Q&A: These researchers examined 20 ...
In the United States, more than thirty states considered premarital HIV testing laws in the 1980s, with Illinois and Louisiana briefly enacting mandatory testing statutes. Only a small number of statutes under consideration would have barred the issuance of a marriage license in the case of a positive test. [5]
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