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Map: Here's How Same-Sex Marriage Laws Will Now Change Nationwide

Sallee Taylor, left, and Andrea Taylor, hold their marriage certificate after they were married at on July 1, 2013 in West Hollywood, Calif.
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Sallee Taylor, left, and Andrea Taylor, hold their marriage certificate after they were married at on July 1, 2013 in West Hollywood, Calif.

The Supreme Court has decided that state same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

In a set of cases grouped under Obergefell v. Hodges, the high court ruled, 5-4, that states have to license same-sex marriages, as well as recognize same-sex marriages from other states. All four dissenting justices wrote dissents.

Before the ruling, 13 states had same-sex marriage bans in place. The majority of the 37 states that recognized gay marriage did so as a result of federal court action. Those states' statuses had been in question with this ruling. The court could have instead upheld bans, which might have meant some of those states could have gone back to prohibiting gay marriage.

Here's how the map of same-sex marriage laws will now change, as a result of this decision.

Read the whole decision here:

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Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She appears on NPR shows, writes for the web, and is a regular on The NPR Politics Podcast. She is covering the 2020 presidential election, with particular focuses on on economic policy and gender politics.