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bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 04:38 PM Apr 2017

NC House bill seeks to make gay marriage illegal again, defying Supreme Court

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 constitution’s ban on same-sex marriage.

House Bill 780 is titled “Uphold Historical Marriage Act,” and is sponsored by some of the House’s most conservative legislators, who frequently file bills that don’t get a hearing because House GOP leaders don’t 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.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144006904.html#storylink=cpy

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NC House bill seeks to make gay marriage illegal again, defying Supreme Court (Original Post) bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 OP
WTF is wrong with these NC Republicans! charlyvi Apr 2017 #1
They are Tea Party extremists who took over the NCGA bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #4
Petty. Petty, petty, petty. LisaM Apr 2017 #2
And they're losing millions of dollars in revenue charlyvi Apr 2017 #3
Who the fuck do they think they are? shenmue Apr 2017 #5
well now Gorsuck is on the bench all this stuff is coming back Ohioblue22 Apr 2017 #6

charlyvi

(6,537 posts)
1. WTF is wrong with these NC Republicans!
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 04:40 PM
Apr 2017

The party of small government wants to micromanage every facet of our lives.

LisaM

(28,522 posts)
2. Petty. Petty, petty, petty.
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 04:40 PM
Apr 2017

Healthcare, schools, roads, jobs, the environment.........what kind of elected official in his right mind would hang on to the gay marriage issue like a dog with a bone when there are actual issues at hand?

charlyvi

(6,537 posts)
3. And they're losing millions of dollars in revenue
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 04:43 PM
Apr 2017

just because of their half-baked, Neanderthal obsession into everyone's sexual identities and bathroom habits.

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