Republicans In Red States in the US have pushed a whole series of anti-LGBTQ+ measures aimed at marriages of the same sex with the aim of ultimately protecting a ban on the Supreme Court on the federally protected law.
The recent wave of accounts led by the Republicans aimed at same -sex marriage comes in the midst of a second Donald Trump presidency in which his administration has made more encouraged attacks on LGBTQ+ communities throughout the country, as seen by a stream of executive orders that he signs up for various LGBTQ+ rights.
Numerous Republican legislators in Red States have followed the example in both rhetoric and the introduction of accounts, causing concern for LGBTQ+ and civil rights organizations on their social and political effects.
In Oklahoma last month, one day after Trump’s inauguration, the Republican state Senator Dusty Deevers entered A series of accounts aimed at LGBTQ+ rights, including the promotion Child Thriving Act.
The Promotion Child Thriving Act establishes a tax credit of $ 500 per child for a mother and father who submits together and is escalated to $ 1,000 when the child was born after the parents’ marriage.
Describing the account, Deers said: “There is no greater factor in the well -being and the future success of a child than whether they grew up in a two -year -old house with their mother and father. It’s not even close. “
He added: “I know that not everyone benefits from this action, but everyone has to support what is good for children, and growing up with the mother and father is the most important factor in the well -being of a child in the vast majority of cases.”
In response to the account of Deevers, the Tulsa -based pastor Randy Lewis of the All Souls Unitarian Church told News channel 8: “I have a non-traditional family-the children of my partner are not mine, so it would be one of those situations. My children are not biologically my partner. We would be one of those situations [where] We are eliminated from the subsidy process. “
Another Republican senator of the state of Oklahoma, David Bullard, introduced a similar bill that would only offer a $ 2,000 child tax credit per child for married couples with biological children from marriage.
Explain The bill for Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Trump, Bullard said It was introduced to challenge the decision of the Supreme Court 2015 in Obergefell against Hodges that declared marriages of the same sex as legal in the US.
“Really what we want to do is challenge that concept and see if we can go to Obergefell,” Bullard said. “And I think that is what we completely push in the board with an account like this is to actually go to Obergefell and say:” No, the Constitution protects my right, my freedom of expression, my freedom of expression, my freedom of religion to disagree with gay marriage. “”
“The reality is that we have to push back on Obergefell,” Bullard added.
In response to the introduction of such accounts, Sean Meloy, vice-president of political programs at LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, said: “These attacks on fundamental rights for LGBTQ+ Americans, including the equality of the marriage that was already determined by the highest court and codified in the federal legislation.”
“The removal of marriage rights for LGBTQ+ couples will not lower food prices, stop corruption or increase economic opportunities,” Meloy continued.
In Idaho, Republican State Actual passed A legislative petition last month in which they called the Supreme Court to reverse the ruling of the marriage of the same sex. Voting 46-24 to ask The Supreme Court to “restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman”.
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In response to Scott, the Idaho House Minority Leader, Ilana Rubel, said: “It is deeply disturbing for some of those people and it ensures that they do not want to live here … these are good, authority -true people who feel that their legislative power does not want them here and does not want them to live the full rights that everyone can do.”
Rebecca de León, the communication director of the American Civilies Union of Idaho, said: “The vast extremists know that Idaho is their playground to strip the rights of people because resistance is not strong here. Let’s be clear: the rights of couples of the same sex to get married is regularly a legal precedent that is still confirmed by courts throughout the country. This unnecessary and intolerant monument is a striking example of how the Idaho -Acting power takes place on eroding civil freedoms. “
In Michigan, the Republican state legislator Josh Schriver led widespread recoil when he introduced a solution To ‘condemn’ the monumental decision of the Supreme Court 2015. The resolution states: “Marriage … has been defined by people from different cultures and religions as a union between one man and one woman. Obergefell rejected this historical definition of marriage randomly and unjustly. “
“This is a biological necessity to maintain and grow our human race,” said Schriver about the resolution, Bridgemichigan report.
In answer At the resolution of Schriverer, the Attorney General of Michigan, Dana Nessel, the first LGBTQ+ person who was chosen in the state office in Michigan, went to Instagram and wrote: “Come and understand it.”
Condemning the resolution as part of a “long line of strategy of certain politicians who want to erase the existence of LGBTQ+ people”, Jay Kaplan, the LGBTQ+ project lawyer of the ACLU of Michigan, said: “It is a distraction of their apparent inability to introduce. It is an empty stunt.”
Kaplan added: “Let’s look at the reality with the decision of the equality of marriage. No church, temple or mosque has to perform a religious wedding ceremony. We have something that is called separation of church and state … They are not obliged to perform wedding ceremonies for couples of the same sex if they choose not to do this. So that doesn’t happen, despite what these politicians may try to say. “
“But when you decide that you can open a company and you can open it to the public, you must serve the audience, and that is a choice you make … You have to meet many things, including civil rights laws,” Kaplan said.
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