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A decade after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in the United States, some Republican leaders still believe in the traditional definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
Fox News Digital spoke with republican legislators on the occasion of Obergefell v. Hodges, the historic decision which forced all states to recognize and legally dismiss homosexual marriages.
Ten years later, some Republican legislators still do not support gay marriage, but they say that preventing him from getting married of the same sex is no longer a legislative program.
“My conviction is that a marriage should be a man and a woman,” said representative Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, at Fox News Digital. “I think it is the basis of all civilian societies and all strong nations. It does not mean that I do not like my American compatriots who have a different opinion, and there are clearly a lot. And if they are part of homosexual weddings where they simply support them, I have been disagreement.”
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Representatives Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and Cory Mills, R-Fla., Are with Fox News Digital from the 10th anniversary of Obergefell c. Hodges. (Nicholas Balasy / Fox News Digital)
Arrington said he was a “guy in the right of law” and compared the Supreme Court’s decision on homosexual marriage with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization of the decision in 2022 which canceled ROE c. Wade, the historical affair which protected constitutional a woman of abortion for almost half a century.
“Just as with the reversal of Roe v. Wade, it is the new Earth law. There are many democrats who have problems with this philosophically, and they will express this.”
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The Texas Republican, Christian, said that he could have his “philosophical differences on what defines marriage, but the court has spoken”.
“I’m going to honor this, but that does not mean that I will change my values and my beliefs on what defines marriage,” said Arrington. “For me, there are laws higher than the laws of our country, and these spiritual laws that I am replacing them.”
The members and supporters of the LGBTQ community attend the Rallye de Say Gay ANMYME in Miami Beach, Florida, March 13, 2022. (Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images)
Several Republicans of the Chamber who spoke with Fox News Digital agreed with the feeling of arington according to which they could disagree with gay marriage, they accepted the decision as the law of the country.
“If you ask Cory de Cory, a person who believes that our constitution has been supervised on our Christian beliefs, Shenandoah, then it is very clear that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman,” said representative Cory Mills, R-Florida.
But Mills added: “I do not see where the federal government should be involved in everyone’s room.”
Republican legislators who spoke with Fox News Digital also stressed that it was a personal choice.
In this June 26, 2013, the file photo, Daniel Hicks seated on a pillar with his boyfriend to watch a crowd celebrate the decisions of the United States Supreme Court on two homosexual rights in homosexual marriage in Atlanta. (AP photo / Jaime Henry-White, file)
Representative Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, said he was a Roman Catholic fervent, so he does not personally believe in gay marriage.
“But I think we live in America, and when you are over 18, you have the right to choose,” said Rulli. “We always support when the Supreme Court has a decision like this.”
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“Frankly, we must all make our own choices,” said representative Rich McCormick, R-GA., Said. “Not everyone believes that it is a Christian value.”
Like many of his republican colleagues, McCormick said that, despite his personal Christian beliefs, “the Supreme Court has decided that, and I stick to that”.
