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Idaho Republican legislators call on SCOTUS to reverse homosexual marriage ruling
The Idaho Residence passed a resolution Monday calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its 2015 decision on homosexual marriage equality.
The court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision established the right to lgbtq+ marriage under the same protection clause and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
The resolution comes after Associate Justice Clarence Thomas’s expressed interest in revisiting the Obergefell decision in his concurring opinion on the Supreme Court's landmark 2022 notion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned the federal right to abortion.
Thomas, who issued a dissenting opinion in 2015 against same-sex marriage, wrote in 2022, "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process judgment is 'demonstrably erroneous,' we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents."
Lawrence v. Texas overturned a rule criminalizing same-sex sexual manner and Griswold v. Connecticut ov
Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the express House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Daytime –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to encounter legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal authority and are not binding law, but instead allow legislative bodies to express their collective opinions.
The resolutions in four other states ech
SC verdict on alike sex marriages Explained Highlights: No fundamental right of gay couples to commit, says Supreme Court
Opening for the petitioners, Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi argued that the right to marry for non-heterosexual couples is implicit in Articles 14 (Equality), 15 (Non-Discrimination), 16 (Equality of Opportunity in Common Employment), 19 (Freedom of Speech), and 21 (Right to Life), especially after the SC decrees in ‘Navtej Singh Johar vs. Union of India’ (2018) decriminalising homosexuality by striking off Section 377 IPC, and ‘KS Puttaswamy and Anr. vs. Union of India’ (2017), which upheld the fundamental right to privacy, respectively.
An LGBT flag at the Supreme Court, Delhi, India after the IPC Section 377 verdict of the Supreme Court in 2018. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha)
However, themes appreciate the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ couples in the Special Marriage Act (SMA), 1954, the Foreign Marriage Act, 1969, the minimum marriageable age of such couples, and the impact of such marriages on children were also discussed throughout the hearing.
Same-sex marriage, which the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 legalized nationwide in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, is facing resurgent hostility.
In the decade since the court’s decision, public support for same-sex marriage has increased. Currently, about 70% ofAmericans approve of legally identifying the marriages of homosexual couples, a 10-percentage-point bump from 2015.
Obergefell led to an increase in marriages among same-sex partners, with more than 700,000 homosexual couples currently married.
Despite this, Republican lawmakers in five states have recently introduced symbolic bills calling on the Supreme Court to overturn its ruling in Obergefell.
And Republican lawmakers in two states possess proposed legislation that creates a new category of marriage, called “covenant marriage,” that is reserved for one man and one woman.
As a professor of legal studies, I believe such attacks on same-sex marriage represent a serious threat to the institution.
And others share my concern.
A 2024 poll of married same-sex couples establish that 54% of respondents are worried that the Supreme Court might overturn Obergefell, with only 17% saying they did not anticipate such a challe
A decade after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, marriage equality endures risky terrain
Milestones — especially in decades — usually call for celebration. The 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, is different. There’s a sense of unease as state and federal lawmakers, as well as several judges, take steps that could deliver the issue endorse to the Supreme Court, which could undermine or overturn existing and future same-sex marriages and weaken additional anti-discrimination protections.
In its nearly quarter century of existence, the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Regulation has been on the front lines of LGBTQ rights. Its amicus little in the Obergefell case was instrumental, with Justice Anthony Kennedy citing facts from the institute on the number of same-sex couples raising children as a deciding factor in the landmark decision.
“There were claims that allowing homosexual couples to bond would somehow devalue or diminish marriage for everyone, including different-sex couples,” said Brad Sears, a distinguished senior scholar of law and policy at the Williams Institute. &