Tennessee House Panel Rejects Natural Marriage Defense Act

[Behind the Aegis]

After failing to win enough votes for a bill they believed would overrule the Supreme Court on marriage equality — an idea that has no basis in law — the Tennessee legislation's sponsor and its supporters gathered in the committee room to pray their fight isn't over.

The legislation sought to nullify the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling in Tennessee and it died Wednesday in the state House in a 4-1 vote by members of the Civil Justice Subcommittee, according to the Associated Press.

The Natural Marriage Defense Act was sponsored by Republican Rep. Mark Pody of Lebanon, who claimed he was called by God to stop same-sex marriage. He argued that a 2006 amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as being only between a man and a woman should still stand regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell decision last June.

According to the AP, 80 percent of voters approved the amendment, which included a provision to declare that any judicial interpretation against it "shall be void and unenforceable in Tennessee."

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Is it wrong that I am laughing my pretty gay ass off at their disappointment? Ah, who cares....

[PJMcK]

1. They never learned civics

These legislators in Tennessee, like their bretheren in other states, don't understand our Constitution at all yet they believe themselves to be "patriots."

And I'm right next to you, laughing my straight ass off at their disappointment.

[Blue_Adept]

2. This particular instance, and associated photo, just screams cult to me

So glad I left all of this back when I was twelve.

[DetlefK]

3. Natural marriage? Where in nature does marriage happen???

I bet these defenders of marriage don't even know that marriage was invented as a legal tool to prevent heritage-disputes. There is no "natural" marriage.

[Ace Rothstein]

9. You've never been to a dog wedding?

[icymist]

13. Awww! Look at the cute precious!

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments-Sonnet #116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

[hobbit709]

5. Matthew 5:7 right there.

Talk about a spectacle.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Was just about to ask if any of them had ever read the New

Testament.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Oh look, the reason I stopped going to church 31 years ago in one photo.

Fucking patriarch cultist bastards.

These assholes wonder why younger people are turning away from religion in droves . . . act like a hate cult, get treated like a hate cult.

[MineralMan]

8. Good. Those morons need to be repudiated

again and again. Maybe they'll stop doing moronic things like that.

[asjr]

10. That would be great but we are speaking

about the state of Tenn. That picture alone speaks volumes. I think they are all praying for a sandbox to play in.

[MineralMan]

11. Yes, but the state legislature turned down the bill.

That's what I'm talking about. Many bills are introduced. Few of those become law. Apparently, even in TN, people are smart enough to recognize stupid bills when they see them.

[icymist]

12. Wow! Look at how they pray in vain.

I wonder if it will ever occur to them that their god isn't interested in condemning homosexuals? Or enforcing their other prejudices?

[Katashi_itto]

14. Always keep this in mind when saying God talked to you.

There are 22 "Religions" with at least half a million follower throughout the world. however, they include secularism/atheism/agnostics as one of these groups and clearly there would be no god there.

Neo-paganism is used to incorporate a larger group of modern revivals of ancient religions. Many of these religions would not meet the 100,000 minimum, but any that did would likely have multiple gods thereby making counting religions useless.

The real problems comes from Hinduism which according the their scriptures has 320 million gods, Some Hindu's will say there is only one god with 320 million forms, but certainly enough believe in this total that they would exceed your 100,000 limit and therefore the total would be over 320,000,000 gods.

So when you say "God" talked to you which are you referring to?
You never know if you got some other Religion's God on the phone.
For safety's sake always get that deities personal ID number.