Key Same-Sex Marriage Decisions in NY and Georgia

By Admin on July 07, 2006 | Last updated on March 21, 2019

On Thursday, the top courts in New York and Georgia handed down key decisions that are seen as setbacks for the same-sex marriage movement. In New York, the state's highest court upheld the state marriage laws as constitutional, and ruled that those laws limit marriage to the union of a man and a woman. In Georgia, the state's Supreme Court reinstated a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

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