A legislator for a Native American nation that covers a portion of Northeastern Arizona and Northwestern New Mexico has unveiled a new push to legalize same-sex marriage within the native nation's territories.
Legislation 0139-23, according to documents available on the Navajo Nation's website, will repeal a portion of Navajo Nation Code's Title 9. Specifically, it repeals a portion that makes all same-sex marriages "void and prohibited" on the Native American tribal nation.
In addition, the bill will substitute gendered language in various parts of Navajo Nation's marriage laws with gender-neutral language. In the statement, Navajo Nation officials said the method for a traditional Navajo wedding ceremony involving a man and a woman will not be changed, and that keeping the traditional Navajo wedding will not ban or deny same-sex marriages, as there are other wedding methods available under Navajo law.
The Navajo Nation covers portions of Northwestern New Mexico and Northeastern Arizona. There was also to legalize same-sex marriage on the Navajo Nation, but the bill expired at the end of the legislative session that year.While same-sex marriage has been legal across the U.S. since the Supreme Court's
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