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States. all. states shown in green. if you live in one of those states your rights basically don t change. but 13 states have either constitutional or legislative bans. those are the ones shown in red. in those states you could stand to lose protections and rights that come with the legal marriage. missouri, highlighted in yellow here, does allow same-sex marriages through judicial order, but before 2015, only st. louis irked marriage licenses to same-sex couples. now, if you live in one of the states that either bans gay marriage or largely doesn t issue licenses, it s unclear if your marriage would be grandfathered in. if it were not grandfathered in, or you weren t yet married, you d lose a wrath of protections throughout life with your partner. for instance, federal survivor benefits from social security. federal worker pensions could be lost. putting ed determine same-sex couples at serious financial risk that heterosexual couples do not face. adoptions would become an issue. ....