What is Same-sex marriage in Hawaii?
Hawaii's denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples was first challenged in state court in 1991, and the plaintiffs initially met with some success. In 1993, a ruling by the [[Supreme Court of Hawaii|Hawaiian Supreme Court]] made Hawaii the first state in the [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|United States]] to consider legal challenges to bans on same-sex marriage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/07/us/in-hawaii-step-toward-legalized-gay-marriage.html|title=In Hawaii, Step Toward Legalized Gay Marriage|work=The New York Times|date=May 7, 1993|last=Schmalz|first=Jeffrey}}</ref> However, Hawaii voters later modified the state [[Constitution of Hawaii|Constitution]] in 1998 to allow the State Legislature to restrict marriage to mixed-sex couples. By the time the Supreme Court of Hawaii considered the final appeal in the case in 1999, it upheld the state's ban on [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|same-sex marriage]]. ==References== {{reflist|2}} [[Category:United States federal legislation]] [[Category:Same-sex marriage]]