Discontinued? Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Bills Advance

Bills targeting same-sex marriage advanced by Oklahoma House panel

Bills discontinuing state marriage licenses and forbidding state and local government employees, including judges, from complying with federal rulings on same-sex marriage advanced from the Oklahoma House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

The two bills are in response to recent federal court decisions and the possibility those decisions will be affirmed later this year by the U.S. Supreme Court.

One of the bills’ authors, Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said forcing states to acknowledge marriage equality violates the U.S. Constitution. Kern quoted the Declaration of Independence’s reference to “the laws of nature and of nature’s God,” and said marriages of other than one man and one woman violate both.

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