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North Dakota Senate rejects resolution asking Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage ruling
BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its landmark decree that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
A vote to validate would have made North Dakota the first mention to make such an overture to the tall court, after the articulate House passed the measure last month.
The resolution failed in a Senate vote after about 10 minutes of debate.
Democratic Sen. Josh Boschee said in contradiction, “I understand that this puts us all in a tough spot, but I ask you to think about who’s lay in the toughest position with this resolution: the people of North Dakota who are the subject of the resolution the gay and lesbian North Dakotans who did not ask to be the subject of this conversation, but the conversation was brought to us.”
Republican Sen. David Clemens supported the measure, saying that while the U.S. Constitution does not mention marriage, the North Dakota Constitution recognizes marriage as between a man a
South Dakota Governor William J. Janklow signed a bill Friday that says the state will only notice marriage between a gentleman and a woman. South Dakota became the second state to rewrite its marriage laws to disapprove lesbian and gay couples the right to commit, following a similar regulation enacted last year in Utah.
The South Dakota bill is in response to a lawsuit entity brought in Hawaii by the ACLU that seems likely to lead to the legalization of homosexual marriages. Radical right groups at a recent Iowa rally vowed to go by anti-gay marriage legislation throughout the 50 states in a preemptive attack on the Hawaii lawsuit.
Director of the ACLU&#;s National Lesbian and Gay Rights Project Matthew Coles responded, &#;Marriage is a fundamental human right that every American should have the freedom to choose&#; Although many lesbian and lgbtq+ couples have been together for decades, and disseminate the same responsibilities that married couples share, they are treated as no more than strangers under the law.&#;
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