Ensuring Equality | Equality Florida

Release Date

05/17/2014

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As the gay-rights movement gains ground nationally, Florida has some work to do to catch up and provide equal protection to all its citizens.

The state's same-sex marriage ban remains on the books, with a hearing held recently in a legal challenge to it. Judges have already struck down similar bans in other, more conservative, states such as Oklahoma, Utah and, most recently, Arkansas.

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