A push to ditch Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban hinges on this year’s elections

Mel Leonor Barclay

Politics Reporter

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Virginia’s Constitution bans same-sex marriages and has since 2006, when voters approved a ballot measure that reads: “Only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this commonwealth.”

For over a decade, marriage equality advocates have been working to undo this, navigating Virginia’s complex constitutional amendments process to remove language that no longer represents the views of most Virginians . The effort has long been a symbolic one given the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges , which established a federal right to marry for same-sex couples.

Now, with the most conservative high court in a century being asked to take up a case