Ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, on June 26, 2015, the majority opinion declared that “The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State.”
The questions presented were:
- “[W]hether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex.”
- “[W]hether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to recognize a same-sex marriage licensed and performed in a State which does grant that right.”
The opinion
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Oral argument
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