Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts
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Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts
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Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Massachusetts since May 17, 2004, as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the Constitution of Massachusetts to allow only opposite-sex couples to marry. Massachusetts was the sixth jurisdiction in the world to legalize same-sex marriage after the Netherlands, Belgium, Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. It was the first U.S. state to open
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Massachusetts
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2004-05-17T16:34:54Z
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2024-08-29T20:08:08Z
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