Watch: Top Senate Republican Doubles Down in Attack on Obergefell – Falsely Claims It Has ‘Mandated’ Same-Sex Marriages
thenewcivilrightsmovement.comU.S. Senator John Cornyn, the long-serving 70-year old Texas born, bred, and educated Republican who has been in government since 1985, on Monday doubled down on his attack on the landmark 2015 Supreme Court case Obergefell v.
Hodges, which found the U.S. Constitution requires same-sex couples to be afforded the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as their different-sex peers.He falsely claimed the ruling “mandated” same-sex marriages, which would literally mean Americans have been forced to marry someone of the same gender.
Two weeks ago he labeled the ruling an “edict,” with the same effect.“Over our nation’s history there’s been something for everyone to love, or hate, from Plessy v.
Ferguson, which established the shameful ‘separate but equal’ doctrine for public schools – ultimately overruled in Brown v.
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