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Idaho lawmakers call on the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell

The resolution added that “marriage as an institution has been recognized as the union of one man and one woman” for two millennia and for eight centuries of Anglo-American legal tradition.

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Thomas and Alito have each signaled their disapproval of Obergefell in recent years, especially as the legal system extends protections to homosexuality and transgenderism. File Image.

Idaho lawmakers will consider a resolution asking the Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges and restore “the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman.”

 

The resolution introduced in the Idaho House observed that the Obergefell decision was “at odds with the Constitution of the United States and the principles upon which the United States is established” since the decision marks an “inversion of the original meaning of liberty.”

 

 

Justices indeed ruled ten years ago that the Fourteenth Amendment extends to members of the same sex the right to a purported marriage, which the Idaho resolution condemns as “treating the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as a font of substantive rights” rather than recognizing inherent rights and liberties which come from God.

 

The resolution added that “marriage as an institution has been recognized as the union of one man and one woman” for two millennia and for eight centuries of Anglo-American legal tradition.

 

Obergefell arbitrarily and unjustly rejected this definition of marriage in favor of a novel, flawed interpretation of key clauses within the Constitution and our nation's legal and cultural precedents,” the resolution added, asking that the Supreme Court once more recognize that the “issue of marriage and enforcement of all laws pertaining to marriage” are duties of the states.

 

 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito have each signaled their disapproval of Obergefell in recent years, especially as the legal system extends protections to homosexuality and transgenderism at the expense of Christian convictions about sexual ethics and the rights previously enjoyed by the natural family alone.

 

Thomas and Alito wrote in one dissenting opinion five years ago that “Obergefell enables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots,” and that many have “attempted to label people of good will as bigots merely for refusing to alter their religious beliefs in the wake of prevailing orthodoxy.”

 

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