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Same-sex marriage in Michigan a decade later
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Tomorrow is the 11-year wedding anniversary for more than 300 same-sex couples who were married in Michigan following a landmark court decision. A federal judge in Detroit had ruled the day before, on March 20th, 2014, that the state’s lgbtq+ marriage ban violated the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause.
That decision sent hundreds of couples dashing to clergy and courthouses to get married while they could.
It also set Michigan’s same-sex marriagecontroversy on a path to the U.S. Supreme Court before it issued its historic homosexual marriage decision.
The case started out as an adoption rights challenge filed by a gay couple that wanted to jointly adopt the special-needs kids they were raising together. Michigan law at the hour only allowed one unmarried person to qualify as an adoptive parent.
It was U.S. District Court Determine Bernard Friedman, a President Ronald Reagan appointee, who suggested the bottom
Gay marriage isn't guarded in Michigan: There's 1 thing we need to carry out to protect it. | Opinion
Jeremy Moss | Op-ed contributor
State Rep. Josh Schriver, R-Oxford, has introduced a resolution asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case that found state bans against same-sex marriage unconstitutional. At a press conference Tuesday, Schriver declared that Obergefell “defaced the definition of marriage, undermined our God-given rights, increased persecution of Christians and confused the American family structure.” Schriver's resolution has six co-sponsors.
First and main, this resolution is non-binding, and carries no legal weight.
Even if the Dwelling passes it, it will not actually do anything to overturn Obergefell. It’s more a expression of the beliefs of Schriver and his co-sponsors than anything else.
But that part is key ― it is incredibly alarming that, 10 years after the marriage equality ruling, elected Michigan Republicans are revving up their ground to attack it. This could head to a political movement to deliver a case to overturn it before a now-more-conservative Supreme Court ― the same court that overturne
(CBS DETROIT) - Michigan GOP Rep. Josh Schriver took to social media on Monday to converse on same-sex marriage, saying, "Make queer marriage illegal again."
In a post on X, the lawmaker from Oxford added, "This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme." Schriver also shared a limited video of then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2004, saying that marriage "is between a man and woman." In 2012, while he was president, Obama said his position on same-sex marriage had evolved and that same-sex couples should have the ability to get married.
"America only 'accepted' same-sex attracted marriage after it was thrusted into her by a perverted Supreme Court ruling. America 2124 doesn't have to be as dysfunctional as America 2024," Schriver said in the post.
Schriver was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2022 and represents parts of Macomb and Oakland counties.
CBS News Detroit has contacted Schriver for comment and is waiting to listen back.
Attorney General Dana Nessel, Michigan's first openly gay statewide officeholder and married to Plymouth Municipality Commissioner Alanna Maguire, reacted negatively to Schriver's statements.
"Please explain how dissolving my ma
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