Idaho’s Republican-dominated state House of Representatives voted 46-24 Monday to pass a resolution to reject same-sex marriage, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark ruling in Obergefell v Hodges.
State requests for the Supreme Court to overturn the 2015 ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, like what the Idaho House passed this week, hold no weight, but former county clerk Kim Davis is still in court.
The Idaho House of Representatives on Monday called for the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 2015 ruling that extended the fundamental right of marriage to same-sex couples. On Monday, the Idaho House voted 46-24 to pass House Joint Memorial 1.
Pushed by an anti-LGBTQ+ group called MassResistance, the resolution is sponsored by, Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, who argued her proposal was about state sovereignty. The resolution asks the nation’s highest court to “restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman.”
Blanchard, proposed a memorial asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Though the majority testified against the memorial, the committee voted to send it to the House,
The House State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly passed a resolution asking the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision, which gave same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide.
House Joint Memorial 1 is turning up the volume in Boise. Idaho legislators want it to be heard by the US Supreme Court.
A Wednesday morning hearing turned into a two-hour debate about Christian scripture, morality, tax benefits, states’ rights, and the implications of forbidding same-sex couples from marrying — a right that they have had in Idaho for more than a decade.
Idaho House lawmakers have signed off on a resolution calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
LGBTQ+ rights advocates protested at the Idaho State Capitol after lawmakers approved a memorial calling for the reversal of federal same-sex marriage protections.
Idaho Republican lawmakers call on Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage ruling - The measure does not carry the force of law but signals how far the GOP will go to test precedent
The Idaho House passed a Republican-backed resolution on Monday urging the Supreme Court to reconsider the legality of same-sex marriage. All of Idaho’s Democratic House members opposed the nonbinding resolution,