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

[bathroommonkey76]

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

[charlyvi]

1. WTF is wrong with these NC Republicans!

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

[bathroommonkey76]

4. They are Tea Party extremists who took over the NCGA

in 2010.

[LisaM]

2. Petty. Petty, petty, petty.

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]

3. And they're losing millions of dollars in revenue

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

[shenmue]

5. Who the fuck do they think they are?

[Ohioblue22]

6. well now Gorsuck is on the bench all this stuff is coming back

brought to you by you know who