Bismarck, ND – The North Dakota Senate on Thursday has declined a scale demanded by the US Landmark in 2015 ruling same-sex sex in the country.
A vote to approve North Dakota is the first state to make such an overture in high court, after the state passes the scale of last month.
The resolution failed with a 16-31 vote in the Senate after about 10 minutes of debate.
Democratic Sen. Josh Boschee said in opposition, “I understand that this puts us all in a tough spot, but I ask you to think about who’s put in the toughest position with this resolution: The People of North Dakotans who did not ask to be the subject of this conversation, but the Conversation was brought to us. “
Supported by Republican Sen. David Clemens The scale, which as the US Constitution did not mention marriage, the North Dakota Constitution recognized marriage like a man and a woman. Clemens said he swore to keep that document.
Many people in the gallery clapped when the defeat is notified.
Massesthusetts-based massresntance pushes measure and those in other states. The group called himself an “international pro-family group.” But it is marked with an “anti-LGBTQ DOLD Group” at the LGBTQ Advocacy Organization Glaad.
Lawmakers in at least nine states recently introduced the steps to try chip distance to the same sex couples’ right to marry. Five of them, including North Dakota’s failed resolution, encourage the Supreme Court to break the 2015 wedding flow to the same sex sex.