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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
If the Supreme Court opts to take on the review of the 2015 decision to allow same-sex marriages across the country, Tennessee could ultimately see its ban on same-sex marriages reinstated.
Voters within the state approved a ban on same-sex marriages in 2006.
When the 2015 case of Obergefell vs. Hodges allowed for them, the constitutional ban became unenforceable, but it is still a part of the Tennessee Constitution.
Just one day after the 2015 ruling, Kim Davis, county clerk in Rowan County, North Carolina, refused to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple on the basis of her religious beliefs. She ultimately spent five days in jail and was ordered in 2023 to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars towards legal fees and damages to the couple.
Davis is now asking the Supreme Court to look at the case and absolve her of those fines.
Additionally, she is asking them to overturn Obergefell vs. Hodges completely.
If the case were to be overturned, Tennessee’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages would once again be enforceable.
However, the state would still be forced to recognize those marriages that are done in other states, because of a 2022 law signed by then-President Joe Biden.
The Supreme Court has not yet announced if it will take on the case, but some state legislators look forward to the chance that they do with Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood-D61) noting, “Obergefell was an egregiously wrong decision.”
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If not for lucifer’s accursed dimmercraps all this anti-God perversion wouldn’t be.
Don’t try to turn your religious views into law.
Focus on important things.
Most people today have gay relatives.
If they want to get married, okay.
There are lots of important things to fight about – this isn’t one.
I disagree with you Daivd H. This is a very IMPORTANT issue worth fighting about. It’s not Dwayne’s law it is God’s Law. And when man overrules God’s Law the outcome will be bad. Do you know about Sodom and Gomorrah? If you do. You also know the judgement that God pronounced on the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. When we don’t speak God’s truth we are complicit in their damnation.
Leviticus 18:22 NKJV
22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 NKJV
13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
Both verses are explicit as to the outcome of committing Homosexuality. This is a very IMPORTANT issue. We do not want any soul condemned to eternal hell.
Matthew 18:11 NKJV
11 For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
John 3:17 NKJV
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
I pray that you get right with God soon.
Romans 10:9 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Definition of Marriage:
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship.
In God we trust not government or man.
Have a blessed day.
AMEN!!
I suspect the Supreme Court isn’t going to revisit Obergefell v. Hodges. You would have to prove that same-sex couples marrying harms anyone, and there is no evidence of that. Fact is, marriage equality for same-sex couples shouldn’t have taken as long as it did. There was never any constitutional justification for denying law-abiding, taxpaying Gay couples the same right to marry that Straight couples have always taken for granted. What more legal reasoning do you need?
Churches have never been forced to provide weddings for anyone, and it’s a moot point anyway, since the legal benefits of marriage don’t come from the church, they come from the federal government. Procreation and parenting are irrelevant also, since couples do not need to marry to make babies, nor is the ability or even desire to make babies a prerequisite for a marriage license.
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) there are 1,138 legal protections, regulations, and responsibilities that pertain specifically to married couples. Much of this has to do with Social Security, inheritance, healthcare, etc. If the government wanted to get out of the marriage business altogether, it would be a legal quagmire.
Some would also suggest that marriage should be left up to individual states, but the point would be moot since a marriage honored in one state is honored across state lines. Marriage is fundamentally a contractual agreement between two adults. Any couple can fly off to Las Vegas for the weekend, get married by an Elvis impersonator, and that marriage is automatically honored back home, thanks to the “Full Faith and Credit” clause.
Maybe I’m being overly optimistic, but I don’t think SCOTUS will reconsider the issue. Frankly, they wouldn’t DARE.
You don’t understand the origin, meaning and purpose of marriage. It’s physically impossible for those of the same sex and an abomination in the eyes of God, who you apparently have little/no regard for. Why are you even here?
Marriage is between a male and female who were born that way. No one should ever be in trouble for refusal to marry same-sex people, even if it is not overturned. Perverted ways should not have to be imposed on people. There are plenty who don’t care. Stop harassing people who stand for what God says is wrong. And same-sex couples should never be allowed to adopt.
AMEN!!