South Carolina Amendment 1

Amendment 1

November 7, 2006

Marriage Act

Results

Choice	Votes	%
Yes	829,360	77.97%
No	234,316	22.03%
Total votes	1,063,676	100.00%

Yes

90%–100%

80%–90%

70%–80%

60%–70%

South Carolina Amendment 1 of 2006 amended the South Carolina Constitution to make it unconstitutional for the U.S. state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 78% of voters.^[1] Unlike the other sixteen such state amendments, South Carolina's explicitly disavows any effort to prevent private contracts between same-sex partners from being recognized^[2]—Virginia being the only state to do so.^[3]^[4]

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The text of South Carolina Amendment 1 states:

A marriage between one man and one woman is the only lawful domestic union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This State and its political subdivisions shall not create a legal status, right, or claim respecting any other domestic union, however denominated. This State and its political subdivisions shall not recognize or give effect to a legal status, right, or claim created by another jurisdiction respecting any other domestic union, however denominated. Nothing in this section shall impair any right or benefit extended by the State or its political subdivisions other than a right or benefit arising from a domestic union that is not valid or recognized in this State. This section shall not prohibit or limit parties, other than the State or its political subdivisions, from entering into contracts or other legal instruments.^[2]

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References

^ CNN.com Election 2006 - Ballot Measures Accessed 14 December 2006.
^ ^a ^b p.24 No.54 edition of the Journal of the Senate of the State of South Carolina. Archived 2008-10-03 at the Wayback Machine State of South Carolina. April 2005. Accessed 06 January 2007.
^ Test case is urged by ACLU Archived 2013-01-02 at archive.today, by Bill Freehling, The Free Lance-Star, November 21, 2006. Accessed 15 December 2006.
^ Potential Impact of the Proposed Marshall/Newman Amendment to the Virginia Constitution Archived 2017-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, by Melissa Glidden, Brenda Jackson-Cooper, and Leslie Nickel, Arnold & Porter, LLP, August 11, 2006. Accessed 15 December 2006.

External links

The Money Behind the 2006 Marriage Amendments -- National Institute on Money in State Politics

v t e U.S. same-sex unions ballot measures
1990s	Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 (1998, see note¹) Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998, ban)
2000s	California Proposition 22 (2000, ban) Nebraska Initiative 416 (2000, ban) Nevada Question 2 (2002, ban) Arkansas Constitutional Amendment 3 (2004, ban) Georgia Constitutional Amendment 1 (2004, ban) 2004 Kentucky Amendment 1 (2004, ban) Louisiana Constitutional Amendment 1 (2004, ban) Michigan Proposal 04-2 (2004, ban) Mississippi Amendment 1 (2004, ban) Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (2004, ban) Montana Initiative 96 (2004, ban) North Dakota Constitutional Measure 1 (2004, ban) Ohio Issue 1 (2004, ban) Oklahoma Question 711 (2004, ban) Oregon Ballot Measure 36 (2004, ban) Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 (2004, ban) Kansas Amendment 1 (2005) Texas Proposition 2 (2005, ban) Alabama Amendment 774 (2006) Arizona Proposition 107 (2006, constitutional ban defeated) Colorado Amendment 43 (2006, ban) Idaho Amendment 2 (2006) South Carolina Amendment 1 (2006, ban) South Dakota Amendment C (2006) Tennessee Amendment 1 (2006, ban) Marshall-Newman Amendment (Virginia) (2006, ban) Wisconsin Referendum 1 (2006, ban) Arizona Proposition 102 (2008, ban) California Proposition 8 (2008, ban) Florida Amendment 2 (2008, ban) Maine Question 1 (2009, legalizing legislation defeated)
2010s	North Carolina Amendment 1 (2012, ban) Maine Question 1 (2012, legalization) Maryland Question 6 (2012, legalization) Minnesota Amendment 1 (2012, proposed ban defeated) Washington Referendum 74 (2012, legalization)
2020s	Nevada Question 2 (2020, legalization)
¹: De facto ban, granted Legislature authority to ban same-sex marriage. Reversed in 2013 by the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act.

Same-sex unions in the United States

Rights and responsibilities of marriages in the United States

General unions

U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions

By state	Recognition of same-sex unions in Colorado Recognition of same-sex unions in Texas Recognition of same-sex unions in Florida

Marriage

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Tribal nations	Navajo Nation
Circuit Courts	Fourth Sixth Seventh Ninth Tenth
Other regions	American Samoa District of Columbia Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands