TENNESSEE: State Rep Calls For Halt To All Marriage Licenses, “God Didn’t Create Adam And Winston”

The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal reports:

Tennessee should stop issuing marriage licenses in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made gay marriage legal, state Rep. Rick Womick said.

“The state Constitution says that marriage is between one man and one woman, and my personal belief is that God says that marriage is between one man and one woman,” said Womick, a Republican who resides in Rutherford County’s Rockvale community southwest of Murfreesboro. “He created Adam and Eve. God didn’t create Adam and Winston.”

Although supporters of marriage equality rights for gay couples celebrated the high court’s June ruling, Womick said during a Tuesday phone interview that Tennessee should revert back to being a common-law state on marriage and stop issuing licenses for couples to wed.

If the state decided to stop issuing marriage licenses, people would still be able to go to church to obtain marriage certificates, Womick said. “It used to be that way until after the Civil War,” Womick said.

Other Tennessee state reps have introduced a bill to entirely “nullify” the Obergefell ruling. Similar attempts are underway in other states.