April 2004
Oregon ordered a stop of gay marriages in Multnomah County. However, they told the state to recognize the same sex marriages already performed, which was about 3,000.
California’s bill allowing same sex marriages passes the Assembly Judiciary Committee, but needs to pass the full Assembly and then it can be sent to the Senate.
Four Supreme Judicial Court judges that were the majority in the Goodridge case were ordered fired by the lawmakers in Massachusetts.
The Governor’s top legal counsel wants the judges to resign if they will not perform same sex marriages.
Legislators in Massachusetts, thirteen of them, filed suit because they said the Supreme Court did not have the right to legalize same sex marriages.
May 2004
A Federal judge ruled against the attempted block of same sex marriages in Massachusetts.
Boston’s U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses an appeal to block same sex marriages, but did agree to hear the case again in June.
In Massachusetts, the U>S Supreme Court refuses to block clerks from giving out same sex marriage license.
Forty same sex couples were married by 3 pastors in Phoenix, Arizona. This was an act of defiance because ministers cannot marry any couple without a license. It is illegal.
On May 17, 2004, same sex couples began to wed in Massachusetts.
July 2004
The City Council in Takoma Park, Maryland passed a resolution for and in favor of same sex marriages.
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All charges against ministers in New Paltz, New York were dropped. They were arrested for performing same sex marriages without marriage licenses.
The US Senate voted to block all amendments to the constitution to ban same sex marriages.
Federal Courts cannot overturn any parts of the Defense of Marriage Act. The US House of Representatives approved this.
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