2008 Florida Amendment 2
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For other amendments, see Florida Amendment 2 (disambiguation).
Florida Amendment 2 is an amendment made to the Constitution of Florida in 2008. It added Article I, Section 27 to the constitution, which defines marriage as a union only between one man and one woman, and thus bans the creation of similar unions, such as civil unions or same-sex marriage.
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Since 2014, the measure was litigated in court and was struck down by multiple state courts in several counties of southern Florida.
Same-sex marriage became legal in Florida when the decision in the federal case Brenner v. Scott found the amendments banning same-sex marriage (including Amendment 2) to be unconstitutional.[1][2]