Variants
Most of these amendments ban civil unions as well as same-sex marriage.
Two marriage amendments differ greatly from all others: Hawaii's and Virginia's. The former gives the Hawaii state legislature the authority to ban same-sex marriages but does not explicitly make such unions unconstitutional. Virginia's amendment not only bans same-sex marriage and civil unions, but arguably renders any state recognition of private contracts entered into by unmarried couples unconstitutional.
Read more about this topic: U.S. State Constitutional Amendments Banning Same-sex Unions
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