DoMA States

A listing of states with Defense of Marriage (one-man/one-woman) laws was part of the statement to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary by Joshua K. Baker, staff attorney of the Marriage Law Project (MLP). The tables below are from this, December 14, 2002 testimony. So the states with amendments has increased.

The updated count after the last election moves Ohio and Texas into the DOMA list, for a total of 38 with and 12 without.

The MLP is part of the Law & Religion Program of the Catholic University of America. The Joint Committee is a combined session of the Massachusetts legislature charged with preparing for the constitutional convention in 2006.

The 36 States With Marriage Recognition Laws

Alabama	Hawaii*	Michigan	Oklahoma
Alaska*	Idaho	Minnesota	Pennsylvania
Arizona	Illinois	Mississippi	South Carolina
Arkansas	Indiana	Missouri	South Dakota
California	Iowa	Montana	Tennessee
Colorado	Kansas	Nebraska*	Utah
Delaware	Kentucky	Nevada*	Virginia
Florida	Louisiana	North Carolina	Washington
Georgia	Maine	North Dakota	West Virginia

*Constitutional amendment

The 14 States without Marriage Recognition Laws

Connecticut	New Jersey	Oregon	Wisconsin
Maryland	New Mexico	Rhode Island	Wyoming
Massachusetts	New York	Texas
New Hampshire	Ohio	Vermont