Here it comes… you knew they couldn’t help themselves.
With Trump in, they are emboldened to try everything on their wishlist. Including marriage equality.
The House State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly passed a resolution asking the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision, which gave same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide.
On Wednesday, Rep. Heather Scott (R-Blanchard) defended the measure saying it was not about defining marriage – but about states’ rights.
“Rights are unalienable and they come from God and they don't come from government. So if we start down this road where the federal government or the judiciary decides that they're going to create rights for us, then they can take rights away.” Scott said. She also said she did not believe marriage was a fundamental right.
Justice Thomas and Alito have been wanting this. And Justice Amy Coney Barrett along with the other dissenters may very well be willing to do with Obergefell as they did with Roe. You know they welcome the invite.
Keep in mind the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA) does not replicate Obergefell..
The RMA has three key elements. First, it repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which authorized states that did not recognize same-sex marriage to deny recognition to such marriages celebrated in other states and also defined marriage for purposes of federal law as between a man and a woman, even if a same-sex couple was married and resided in a state that recognized their marriage as lawful.
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...Second, the RMA flips the interstate aspect of DOMA by requiring states to recognize same-sex marriages that are celebrated in states that have marriage equality…
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...Third, a provision that was added to the RMA in the Senate version of the bill permits “nonprofit religious organizations” to decline “to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges for the solemnization or celebration of a marriage.”…
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...Today, same-sex couples can marry in any state or territory of the United States. If Congress enacts the RMA and the Supreme Court subsequently overrules Obergefell, same-sex couples residing in states that do not of their own accord recognize the legality of their marriages would have to go to the trouble and expense of traveling to a state that does in order to receive full recognition in their home state. (Whether same-sex couples who are already married in such states would have to remarry in another state would depend on whether such states would be so cruel as to attempt to apply their bans retroactively and, if so, whether the affected couples might have a valid legal objection to being stripped of their married status.)
Don’t think they won’t try and take down the RMA with it. These corrupt justices...of course they would.
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