A bill introduced in the state assembly would render Obergefell v. Hodges null and void. 'God is perfect,' said Rep. Larry Pittman, 'and therefore has no need to 'change with the times.''
, Republicans in North Carolina are still not fighting to stop marriage equality. And they have a message for supporters of LGBT rights:"Tell it to Satan."
Introduced in the state assembly in February, HB 65, the Marriage Reaffirmation Amendment Act, would revive North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage, approved by voters in 2012, and rendernull and void and unenforceable. The measure would alsoprohibit civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
A 2012 voter referendum banning same-sex marriage was invalidated by the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling bringing marriage equality to all 50 states.In a statement in February, Equality NC slammed HB 65 as"yet another heartless attempt to rewrite settled legislation that protects same-sex couples all across the state."
The bill has virtually no chance of success: Even if it passed, Democrat governor Roy Cooper has expressed his opposition to it, and Republican don't have the votes to override a veto. But a reader of Hemant Mehta's blog, identified as"Leo," still wanted the bill's sponsors to know that"the people of NC have still not forgotten your ignorant and unconstitutional pandering to the"old fashioned" intolerant evangelicals."Reps. Larry Pittman and Michael Speciale, two of HB 65's Republican authors."Two people getting married in no way affects me or my life and nor does it affect yours.
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