Conservative Politicians Are Debating Marriage Equality Again And That Should Terrify You

For over six months, conservative politicians have been huddled in corners of Senate quietly debating a federal law that guaranteed marriage equality which was passed in 2015.

In terms of recognizing same sex marriage, the United States was far behind other progressive nations including Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2005), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010) along with Iceland and Argentina- both who made Marriage Equality law of the land nearly a decade ago.

Under the Obama administration, the United States Supreme Court was locked in a heated battle with conservative states who, mostly by the virtue of religion, wanted to define marriage as a “Union between one man and one woman.” Since 2012, hundreds of LGBT couples and activists sued states, including Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, that refused to allow them the right to marry. Those contentious legal disputes are what led to the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges that saw the Court- and although that culminated in a historic victory for the LGBT community, four conservative Judges of the prestigious bench were outraged they had lost. The late Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. and Justice Clarence…