What about homosexuals, though, who cannot legally marry in any American state bar Massachusetts?
They are less likely to marry in their teens and more inclined to pursue a career.
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But gays who marry in Hawaii would then have legal standing to test these laws.
Same-sex couples can now legally marry in nine states and the District of Columbia.
As a result, they cannot marry in Israel, where the only form of marriage is religious.
Mr Obama first voiced support for the right of same-sex couples to marry in May.
Does this mean that you can marry in those states but do other states not have to recognize them?
Coontz notes some couples even choose not to marry in order to reassure adult children that they'll get their inheritances.
Our splitsville rate is just two-thirds the national average, mainly because many New Yorkers never marry in the first place.
Firms that marry in haste, choosing partners from different regions of the financial world, may repent at leisure in harder times.
In Hong Kong, the fast food giant is developing a service known as "McWedding" to encourage people to marry in their stores.
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The legal age to marry in Texas is 16 with parental consent.
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As of May 17, they will be able to marry in Massachusetts as a result of a ruling by that state's Supreme Court.
When he spoke of winning the battle, he probably did not have in mind gaining the right to join the military and marry in church.
The makers of Sesame Street say characters Bert and Ernie will not marry in a same-sex ceremony despite an online petition calling for the union.
The 23-year-old soldier, from Newcastle, leaves his father Garry, mother Olywn and fiancee Hayley, whom he was due to marry in July after the tour.
Same-sex couples became free to marry in Maryland, Maine and Washington.
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The two decided to marry in 1992 and honeymoon in Moscow.
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My soon to be wife Chloe (they marry in August) and my two boys Zac and Oscar, not 'Oh no I'm not going to ride again.
Simon Paisley Day and Anna Madeley are both very fine as the ever-so-conventional types whom Elyot and Amanda marry in an increasingly desperate attempt to escape from one another.
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For the Supreme Court to place the right to marry in the hands of voters in each state is for the Supreme Court to implicitly endorse tyranny of the majority.
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Both Hispanic and black men and women who marry whites are more likely to be in a union where both partners are college-educated than those who marry in their group.
If the Supreme Court declines review, same-sex couples would again be permitted to marry in California, as was the case for several months in 2008, prior to the passage of Prop. 8.
Same-sex couples will be able to marry in New Hampshire beginning January 1 under New Hampshire General Court HB 436, and the state joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and Iowa in legalizing same-sex marriages.
The ballot measure overturned a previous court decision that had legalized gay marriage in the state and prompted some 18, 000 same-sex couples to marry in just the four months leading up to Tuesday's election.
Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, who are already same-sex civil partners and have five children together, told CNN that it was important to them to be able to marry in front of their fellow churchgoers.
Seattle's ceremony included 133 couples, who walked outside and down rain-slickened steps afterward, where they were greeted by cheers, confetti and a brass band celebrating the first day same-sex couples could marry in Washington.
The couple are due to marry in September.
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In the brief to the Supreme Court, the Obama administration makes a clear statement that gay couples should be afforded the right to marry in states where they are offered legal rights as domestic partners.
The push to amend state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage gained steam in May, after gay men and lesbians were granted the right to marry in Massachusetts, thanks to the state's Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled that laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violated the state constitution.
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