Virginia voters approved an equal-marriage amendment.
The result reverses a 2006 state constitutional ban; certification is still pending.
Virginia voters approved Question 2, replacing the state constitution’s same-sex marriage ban with language affirming equal lawful marriage for two adults.
WHAT HAPPENED
On November 3, voters backed a constitutional amendment that removes Virginia’s 2006 same-sex marriage ban and states that the Commonwealth may not deny a marriage license to two adults based on sex, gender or race. It also requires Virginia to recognize lawful marriages equally. The Associated Press called the result on election night; official certification is still pending.
WHY THIS IS HOPESLOP
Twenty years after Virginia voters put the ban into the constitution, a new electorate voted to take it out and replace it with an affirmative promise of equal treatment. Federal law already protects same-sex marriage, but state constitutional language is not a small thing: it records what a commonwealth chooses to guarantee.
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