• The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment, was a proposed amendment to the United States...
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    administration supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would limit marriage to heterosexual couples...
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    "defense of marriage amendments" or "marriage protection amendments." These state amendments are different from the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which...
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    restrict marriage to heterosexual unions. In 2006, the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have prohibited states from recognizing same-sex marriages, was...
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  • of marriage amendment or Defense of marriage act may refer to: Defense of Marriage Act, the statute banning federal recognition of same-sex marriage in...
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    Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and...
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    approved the amendment, 61% to 39%, with a voter turnout of 35%. On May 23, 2012, the amendment took effect. State law had already defined marriage as being...
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  • "undermining traditional marriage laws", endorsed the Federal Marriage Amendment and state initiatives that support "traditional marriage", and referenced "the...
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    Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Act 2015 (previously bill no. 5 of 2015) amended the Constitution of Ireland to permit marriage to...
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    presidency and is sometimes nicknamed the "Arnold Amendment" or "Amend for Arnold". The Federal Marriage Amendment has been introduced in the United States Congress...
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    California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage; it passed in the November 2008 California state elections...
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  • amendment 2008 Florida Amendment 2 - 2008 Florida initiated constitutional amendment Federal Marriage Amendment - Purposed amendment to the Constitution...
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    The Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA; H.R. 8404) is a landmark United States federal law passed by the 117th United States Congress in 2022 and signed into...
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    2024, in Colorado. If passed, the amendment would repeal Amendment 43, a 2006 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in the Constitution of Colorado....
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  • support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Bush did not explicitly endorse the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which has been criticised...
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    regarding same-sex marriage, and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) regarding race-based college admissions. The amendment limits the actions...
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    My Back and I'll Scratch Yours: Why the Federal Marriage Amendment Should Also Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment". South Texas Law Review. 49 (1). South...
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    have to have, a constitutional amendment that defines marriage." He is in full support of the Federal Marriage Amendment. Due to his numerous stances opposing...
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  • Marilyn Musgrave, U.S. congresswoman from Colorado, introduces the Federal Marriage Amendment in the country's House of Representatives with 108 co-sponsors...
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  • States federal government and a number of state legislatures passed or attempted to pass legislation either prohibiting or allowing same-sex marriage or other...
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  • Act (Indiana) Religious Freedom Act (Kansas) Federal Marriage Amendment "Cruz, Lee introduce 'State Marriage Defense Act'". The Washington Post. "Treasury...
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  • federal intervention to oppose state laws with respect to the Federal Marriage Amendment, the Terri Schiavo case, the Kelo case regarding eminent domain...
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    Minnesota Amendment 1 (also called Minnesota Marriage Amendment or Minnesota Gay Marriage Amendment) was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment proposed...
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    United States Marriage Protection Act of 2007 U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions Federal Marriage Amendment Domestic partnership...
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  • issue in the debate over federal recognition of same-sex marriage. Under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal government was prohibited...
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    The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton...
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    the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 2004. In 2006, he voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay...
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    2000 Alabama Amendment 2, also known as the Alabama Interracial Marriage Amendment, was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama to remove...
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  • vote (and a recent vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment) was election year grandstanding. In 2005, the First Amendment Center published a report titled...
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    Melancon voted in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment. On 29 April 2009, Rep. Melancon voted against the federal hate crimes expansion bill known...
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