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Distinction between same-sex marriages and civil unions

This page feels factually incorrect to me, specifically the parts about Obama supporting same-sex marriages. He has explicitly stated that marriage is between a man and a woman.

“Marriage is between a man and a woman,” Obama says in an interview on Chicago public television during his U.S. Senate campaign, adding, “but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to transfer property to each other, to make sure they’re not discriminated against on the job.” He says homosexuality is not a choice and “for the most part, it is innate.” Obama distinguishes marriage from other civil rights, saying, “We have a set of traditions in place that I think need to be preserved.”

See: https://time.com/3816952/obama-gay-lesbian-transgender-lgbt-rights/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.105.33.21 (talk) 06:29, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Counter point to this, there seems to be substantiated claims that he was actually in favor, but felt compelled to conceal his view (lie for the sake of unpopular opinion).

See: https://time.com/3702584/gay-marriage-axelrod-obama/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.105.33.21 (talk) 06:33, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

New map for SSM not codified into state law?

How about a new map showing which states have yet to codify SSM into state law? The map could show: 1) states that passed SSM legislation before Obergefell; 2) states that updated their statutes after Obergefell; 2) states that amended their constitutions to include a right to SSM (eg. Nevada); 3) states that have not codified SSM yet. I think such a map would be valuable for highlighting which states are most vulnerable to possibile SC reversals on Obergefell.

Currently, two useful maps on state laws are a bit hidden, two pages down from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/Same-sex_marriage_law_in_the_United_States_by_state . These, however, only show state bans and say nothing on states that have codified SSM (some states may have legalised it by federal or state court ruling or executive order and have no statute bans in place but still no relevant piece of legislation either). Finedelledanze (talk) 09:59, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Number of Same-Sex Couple Households Exceeded 1 Million in 2021

There were about 1.2 million same-sex couple households in the United States in 2021, according to recently released Census Bureau data. Roughly 710,000 of the same-sex couple households were married and about 500,000 were unmarried.

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