Tennessee should stop issuing marriage licenses in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made gay marriage legal, state Rep. Rick Womick said.
"The state Constitution says that marriage is between one man and one woman, and my personal belief is that God says that marriage is between one man and one woman," said Womick, a Republican who resides in Rutherford County's Rockvale community southwest of Murfreesboro. "He created Adam and Eve. God didn’t create Adam and Winston."
Although supporters of marriage equality rights for gay couples celebrated the high court's June ruling, Womick said during a Tuesday phone interview that Tennessee should revert back to being a common-law state on marriage and stop issuing licenses for couples to wed.
Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell, a Republican from Nashville, appointed a task force that includes state Rep. Mike Carter to examine how to respond to the court ruling, and the group will soon meet again on the issue, said Carter, a Republican from Ooltewah in Hamilton County in the Chattanooga area.
Gay-rights supporter Laura Bohling during a Saturday phone interview questioned why state lawmakers want to challenge the nation's top court, which in 1967 in the Loving v. Virginia decision ruled that states have to permit marriage of interracial couples in a case involving a white man and a black woman.
"I’m flabbergasted that we are wasting money on a task force to decide what to do on marriage licenses," said Bohling, who served one term as a Republican Circuit Court clerk in Rutherford County from September 2010 to August 2014. "It seems like it’s the land of the free and the home of the brave unless you are gay." Cont.
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