[1]The Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (as we noted here [3]), leaving states to decide on the legality of same-sex marriage. As the infographic below from Bloomberg shows [4], laws ban same-sex-marriage in 35 states, with five of those allowing civil union or domestic partnerships.
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[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden
[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/9488
[3] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-26/supreme-court-strikes-down-doma
[4] http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-03-25/supreme-court-weighs-same-sex-marriage.html
[5] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2013/06-2/20130626_doma.png