A new Tennessee law undercuts the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark, closely divided decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, and marks a significant victory for a resurgent conservative movement to restrict LGBTQ rights.
It seems to me that US is becoming a lawless Nation. At least the SCOTUS is not willing to uphold the law, but searches for a way to defeat the law. It has become personal with the Court.
Good for them! 
The “Christian” Taliban strikes again.
This morning I heard a podcaster say that thanks to the Supreme Court we are all living in a red state now. He’s not wrong.
Watching the countless, relentless machinations going on now as the crazies try to drag us back to biblical times, it is getting harder and harder to feel hopeful about the future. Something is going to pop.
This is, as the article implicitly points out, one more feature of the modern US: sure, you might have rights, but if you can’t find any way to exercise those rights locally, you’re effed.
Also broadens the application of so-called “conscience” clauses and makes you wonder where they’ll stop. Does a town clerk have to register your deed when you buy a house, if they don’t like you? Does a police officer have to respond to your report of a crime if you somehow offend their conscience?
Or can an MD perform a certain medical procedure to save the live of a patient? Based on the MD’s conscience? And deeply held religious beliefs?
The cult has decided that it is entitled to an a-la-carte interpretation of our constitution and our laws. I’m pretty sure it’s what the founders intended.
Griswold will be undone in the next 5 years.
Blue states been paying for red states for decades now…
ANOTHER state that has decided when we pass laws for the nation they are just SUGGESTIONS? They want ‘states rights’ until they DON’T???
I mean when the US is dissolved, a lot is undone
Yep - but the one SC case that won’t be touched in the foreseeable future is Loving vs. Virginia.
No question as to why it’ll never be challenged in this court.
How many people really want to have their marriage solemnized by a seething bag of bigotry?
Let me know when this becomes an actual impediment to anyone getting married.
I don’t see the nation surviving long term without some fundamental changes. Chief among them is allowing (or forcing) the Old South to separate from the Union and form their own nation. If you review the history of the last decade or two the most nettlesome social, cultural and legal issues bewitching our lives predominately originate from the actions of the citizens and legislatures in the southern states.
I suppose such a large number of government and religious figures could coalesce around the practice of refusing to perform LGBT marriages it would become like getting an abortion, wherein you’re forced in some states to travel hundreds of miles to get married.
And the way MAGA works these days anyone that does make it known they’ll perform such marriages will be hounded by death threats and otherwise have their lives made miserable.
“We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.” ― John Lewis
The new law is among the first in the country to allow state officials to decline to participate in… other forms of marriage
The Republican Party is not pro-family or pro-religion.
