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Code of Virginia that banned same-sex relationship and civil unions, in a 63-34 vote. In August 1975, the Code of Virginia was amended to prohibit marriages amongst folks of the identical sexual intercourse. On February 4, 1997, the Virginia State Senate, by a 37-3 vote, authorised the Affirmation of Marriage Act, banning the recognition of exact same-intercourse marriages from other jurisdictions and "any contractual legal rights developed by these types of relationship". District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia demanding the state's ban on similar-sex marriage. Same-sex relationship is supported by each of the state's senators, Democrats Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. Judge Arenda Wright Allen heard oral arguments on February 4, 2014, with attorneys for the Norfolk Clerk of Circuit Court, George Schaefer, defending the state's ban on very same-intercourse relationship. On February 13, 2014, Judge Wright Allen ruled that Virginia's statutory and constitutional ban on exact same-sex relationship violated the U.S. Voters accredited an modification to the Constitution of Virginia reinforcing the current guidelines in 2006. On January 14, 2014, a U.S. Ahead of the 2024 legislative session, Ebbin and Sickles filed yet another constitutional amendment to repeal the ban. Democratic lawmakers introduced in November 2022 that they would introduce yet another constitutional amendment to repeal the Marshall-Newman Amendment. |
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