Idaho House calls on Supreme Court to undo same-sex marriage ruling

The Idaho House of Representatives has passed a Republican-backed resolution urging America's Supreme Court to take up a very important issue.

According to TheHill.com, Idaho's Republican-led House wants the nation's Supreme Court to take a serious look at the 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges, which solidified same-sex marriage as a right in America.

Even though 15 Republicans and all of Idaho's Democratic House members opposed the resolution, it still passed by a margin of 46 to 24.

"Christians across the nation are being targeted," said Republican state Representative Heather Scott, who sponsored the measure.

"I would ask you to substitute any other issue and ask yourself, ‘Do I want the federal government creating rights for us, for Idahoans,’" Scott said during her floor debate.

"So what if the federal government redefined property rights or nationalized water rights? What does that look like if they came up with some new fair use policy or came up with different ways to define property rights? That is not a decision for the judges; it is a decision for the states."

On the other side of the coin was House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, who said she voted against the resolution because it harms "good people."

"It’s deeply upsetting to some of those folks, and it makes them not want to live here," Rubel said. "These are good people. These are good, law-abiding people who are feeling like their Legislature doesn’t want them here and doesn’t want them to be able to live the full rights that everybody else can."

Proponents of the bill argued that the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling that upheld same-sex marriage was made "in complete contravention of their own state constitutions and the will of their voters, thus undermining the civil liberties of those states’ residents and voters."

Idaho voters passed a measure in 2006 that amended their state constitution to clarify that legal marriage was only between a man and a woman.

Despite the enthusiasm from Idaho's lawmakers, America's Supreme Court does not overturn its previous rulings unless it is presented with a new legal challenge from a different case.

Do you think that all gay couples in America deserve the right to legally marry their partner?

Or should this decision be made on a state-by-state basis, as the Republicans in Idaho are arguing?