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Referendum banning same-sex marriage
Amendment 1|
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Choice
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Votes
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%
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Yes
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1,222,125
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74.56%
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No
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417,097
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25.44%
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Valid votes
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1,639,222
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91.28%
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Invalid or blank votes
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156,660
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8.72%
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Total votes
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1,795,882
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100.00%
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Registered voters/turnout
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2,794,286
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58.7%
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Yes 90–100% 80–90% 70–80% 60–70% 50–60%
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Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1[3] of 2004, is an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution that made it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 75% of the voters.[4]
The text of the amendment states:
Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Kentucky. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized.[5]
On September 10, 2013, the Kentucky Equality Federation sued the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Franklin Circuit Court claiming Kentucky's 2004 Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage violated sections of the commonwealth's constitution. Case # 13-CI-1074 was assigned by the Franklin County Court Clerk (the location of the Kentucky State Capitol). The lawsuit was conceived by President Jordan Palmer, written and signed by Vice President of Legal Jillian Hall, Esq. On April 16, 2015, the case was decided in favor of the plaintiff by Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Wingate.
This provision also became void in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Amendment 1[6]
Choice
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Votes
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%
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Yes
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1,222,125
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74.55
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No
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417,097
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25.45
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U.S. same-sex unions ballot measures |
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1990s | |
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2000s |
- California Proposition 22 (2000, ban)
- Nebraska Initiative 416 (2000, ban)
- Nevada Question 2 (2002, ban)
- Arkansas Constitutional Amendment 3 (2004, ban)
- Georgia Constitutional Amendment 1 (2004, ban)
- 2004 Kentucky Amendment 1 (2004, ban)
- Louisiana Constitutional Amendment 1 (2004, ban)
- Michigan Proposal 04-2 (2004, ban)
- Mississippi Amendment 1 (2004, ban)
- Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (2004, ban)
- Montana Initiative 96 (2004, ban)
- North Dakota Constitutional Measure 1 (2004, ban)
- Ohio Issue 1 (2004, ban)
- Oklahoma Question 711 (2004, ban)
- Oregon Ballot Measure 36 (2004, ban)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 (2004, ban)
- Kansas Amendment 1 (2005)
- Texas Proposition 2 (2005, ban)
- Alabama Amendment 774 (2006)
- Arizona Proposition 107 (2006, constitutional ban defeated)
- Colorado Amendment 43 (2006, ban)
- Idaho Amendment 2 (2006)
- South Carolina Amendment 1 (2006, ban)
- South Dakota Amendment C (2006)
- Tennessee Amendment 1 (2006, ban)
- Marshall-Newman Amendment (Virginia) (2006, ban)
- Wisconsin Referendum 1 (2006, ban)
- Arizona Proposition 102 (2008, ban)
- California Proposition 8 (2008, ban)
- Florida Amendment 2 (2008, ban)
- Maine Question 1 (2009, legalizing legislation defeated)
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