Three Republicans in North Carolina’s House of Representatives have introduced a bill to reverse the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling in the state.
H.B. 780, reported by WNCN Tuesday, states that the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring that same-sex couples are guaranteed the right to marry overstepped the court’s constitutional bounds.
The ruling also, according to the bill’s three primary Republican sponsors, “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.”
Legal experts are dubious that the Supreme Court ruling would be overturned.
A similar bill in Tennessee to recognize only those marriages between one man and one woman, the Natural Marriage Defense Act, was delayed recently pending the results of two lawsuits related to same-sex marriage in the state, the Tennessean reported.
Carrying that originalist crap just a tad far.
Fuck the Bible.
Yes, it’s a hot button topic for me.
Does it ban divorce?
That’s just awesome, North Carolina. Whichever professional organizations haven’t already withdrawn plans to party in Charlotte will now do so. Thereby robbing you of all that income.
Heckuva job, folks!
Okay, I’ll bite. I’ll go along with this cherry-picking bullshit if they allow one amendment: every motherfucking adulterer gets stoned to death. I could settle for anyone working on the Sabbath gets stoned to death, if the adultery bit is too extreme. Of course, the Ten Commandments aren’t really rules, they’re more like guidelines. Oh, and the Apostle Paul was gay. Everybody just loves Paul.