A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized.

[5] Amendments to the Kentucky Constitution require 3/5 support in both houses of the General Assembly and a majority vote by referendum; they can not be vetoed by the governor.

Case # 13-CI-1074 was assigned by the Franklin County Court Clerk (the location of the Kentucky State Capitol).

On April 16, 2015, the case was decided in favor of the plaintiff by Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Wingate.

This provision also became void in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.