US Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, has said that the Supreme Court was wrong to legalise same-sex marriage. During the podcast, Cruz said, “Obergefell, like Roe v Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history.“Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.
We saw states before Obergefell —some states were moving to allow gay marriage, other states were moving to allow civil partnerships.
There were different standards that the states were adopting.”He continued: “Had the Court not ruled in the Obergefel, the democratic process would have continued to operate.
That if you believed gay marriage was a good idea, the way the Constitution is set up for you to advance that position is to convince your fellow citizens and if you succeeded in convincing your fellow citizens then your state would change the laws to reflect those views“In Obergefel the court said, ‘No, we know better than you guys do,’ and now every state must sanction and permit gay marriage.“I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided.
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