Buoyed by Donald Trump’s election, opponents of gay marriage want the president-elect to help them overturn last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriages.
The Human Rights Campaign, a group that backs gay marriage, said that President-elect Donald Trump ran his campaign as “a consistent opponent of marriage equality.”
Trump has sent mixed messages on the subject.
In January, he told “Fox News Sunday” that he would “strongly consider” appointing conservative judges who would reverse the ruling. But only days after winning the presidency, he told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the question was “irrelevant because it was already settled” by the high court.
While scrapping the landmark decision could take years, opponents want to strike quickly, getting Congress to pass a bill that would give new federal protections to those who say they oppose gay marriage on moral grounds.
As a candidate, Trump promised to back the bill, called the First Amendment Defense Act, sponsored by Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador.
Via IdahoStatesman