Could gay marriage be reversed
Some Republican lawmakers raise calls against male lover marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the express House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its conclusion -- which the court cannot undertake unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states fond Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the state Residence with a vote of and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the suggestion on the 41st Legislative Day –deferring the bill to the final afternoon of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to face legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal authority and are not binding statute, but instead consent legislati
At a convention for Southern Baptist church members in early June, delegates endorsed legislation calling for a ban on same-sex marriage and urged legislators to support them in this goal.
Although same-sex marriage is currently protected in all 50 states due to the ruling in Obergefell vs. Hodges in , Justice Clarence Thomas has said he would love to "reconsider" that decree if a similar case were ever to before the court again.
He also said he would be open to reconsidering Lawrence vs. Texas which legalized gay sex, and Griswold vs. Connecticut which legalized access to contraception, as these cases were built on similar case regulation to Roe vs. Wade, which legalized the right to an abortion nationwide, was overturned in
Why It Matters
The Southern Baptist church is the U.S.' largest protestant denomination, and their endorsement of political causes has sway with GOP politicians, as they are a consistent Republican-voting base. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is one of the country's most powerful Southern Baptists.
This call to eliminate homosexual marriage comes amid
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The last not many years have seen a marked increase in hostility towards the LGBT+ people in this country, such that the ‘extensive and often virulent attacks on the rights of LGBTI people’ in the UK were noted alongside those in Hungary, Poland, the Russian Federation and Turkey in a report from the Council of Europe. In it was reported that the UK has continued its descent down ILGA-Europe’s ranking for LGBTQ+ rights to 14th place, after having been top in ; this year it slipped further to 17th place. It is against this broader context that, last month, the UK was notified that an application has been made to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the revocation of same-sex marriage in Bermuda, one of the UK’s overseas territories: Ferguson and Others v The United Kingdom (no/22). As the signatory
The Supreme Court could overturn its landmark ruling that established a nationwide right to same-sex marriage if a case addressing the matter is brought before it, experts told Newsweek.
Why It Matters
Last month, Idaho lawmakers approved a resolution that called for the Court to undo its Obergefell v. Hodges decision that declared a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry.
After President Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Court in his first term, cementing a conservative supermajority, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion. Since then, there have been concerns that the Court's conservative justices could execute away with other rights, including the right to same-sex marriage.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two conservative justices who dissented in Obergefell v. Hodges, have suggested that the decision should be reconsidered.
What To Know
Gallup polling shows that a majority of Americans continue to believe marriage between same-sex couples should be legal (69 percent), though