In November 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that samesex couples are entitled to equal marriage rights. Later the following year, voter initiatives designed to ban same-sex marriage were passed in 11 state ballots throughout the United States, and pundits declared that a sizeable proportion of George W. Bush’s support for the presidency came from ‘values voters’ who saw gay marriage as a threat. Bush and Republican members of Congress proposed a federal Constitutional Amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. The Massachusetts decision has deeply divided the United States.
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Meeks, C., & Stein, A. (2006). Refiguring the Family: Towards a Post-Queer Politics of Gay and Lesbian Marriage. In Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (pp. 136–155). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625266_8
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