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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Federal judge rules Oklahoma same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment [text] to the US Constitution. Article II section 35 of the Oklahoma Constitution [text] enacted in 2004 by State Question No. 711 [text, PDF] defines marriage in Oklahoma as "consist[ing] only of the union of one man and one woman." Judge Terence Kern found...
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