Overturning gay marriage news
At a convention for Southern Baptist church members in first June, delegates endorsed legislation calling for a ban on same-sex marriage and urged legislators to support them in this goal.
Although lgbtq+ marriage is currently protected in all 50 states due to the decision in Obergefell vs. Hodges in 2015, Justice Clarence Thomas has said he would like to "reconsider" that decision 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 law to Roe vs. Wade, which legalized the right to an abortion nationwide, was overturned in 2022.
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 Residence Mike Johnson is one of the country's most forceful Southern Baptists.
This dial to eliminate gay marriage comes amid an existing drive from President Donald Trump's administration to remove transgender people
Decade after landmark verdict, Republican support for same-sex marriage craters
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Ten years after the Supreme Court legalized lgbtq+ marriage nationwide, most Americans support the high court's Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
However, the latest national polling on the issue indicates that there is now a record partisan divide over assist for legalized queer marriage.
Ten years ago, the U.S. became the 17th nation in the society to legally know same-sex marriage. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than three-quarters of a million homosexual couples are now wedded across the country.
The case focused on whether express bans on queer marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Court's judgment, which stated that the right to marry is a fundamental right guaranteed to same-sex couples, struck down those existing state bans on same-sex marriage.
NATION'S LARGEST PROTESTANT DENOMINATION CALLS FOR OVERTURNING SUPREME COURT Verdict LEGALIZING GAY MARRIAGE
It has been 10 years since a Supreme Court verdict legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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A Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma has filed a resolution calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 judgment that established the nationwide right to same-sex marriage.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 8, authored and sponsored by express Senator Dusty Deevers, was introduced on May 1.
Newsweek has contacted Deevers for comment via email.
Why It Matters
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending the constitutional right to an abortion, there have been concerns that the nation's highest court could also do away with other rights, including the right to same-sex marriage.
Conservative lawmakers in several states, including Idaho and Montana, include introduced various measures encouraging the court to overturn Obergefell. Two conservative Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who both dissented in Obergefell, have suggested that the decision should be reconsidered.
What To Know
The resolution states the decision in Obergefell "conflicts with the first public meaning of the United States Constitution, the principles upon which the United States is established, and the deeply rooted
Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state Residence and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot carry out unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the state House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Day –deferring the bill to the last day 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 law, but instead consent legislative bodies to express their collective opinions.
The resolutions in four other states ech