North Carolina
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A bill filed Tuesday by four N.C. House Republicans would direct state government to defy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and restore the state constitutions ban on same-sex marriage.
House Bill 780 is titled Uphold Historical Marriage Act, and is sponsored by some of the Houses most conservative legislators, who frequently file bills that dont get a hearing because House GOP leaders dont support the proposals.
The bill says that the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the country is null and void in the State of North Carolina. The bill quotes the Christian Bible and says the ruling exceeds the authority of the court relative to the decree of Almighty God that a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24, ESV) and abrogates the clear meaning and understanding of marriage in all societies throughout prior history.
The bill would order state government to return to the constitutional amendment known as Amendment One, which was approved in a 2012 voter referendum.
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