Ellen had announced her and Portia's engagement on her show, three months before their wedding and just after the California Supreme Court overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage. That November, voters passed Proposition 8, a ballot measure that defines marriage under the California Constitution as only between a man and a woman.
In 2013, a federal appeals court ruled that gay marriages could resume in California, after a federal judge struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that supporters of it did not have the legal right to appeal. In 2015, a Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage legal nationwide.
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