Idaho Advances Resolution On Overturning Obergefell

January 25, 2025 Christianists, Republicans

Boise’s NPR affiliate reports:

The House State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly passed a resolution asking the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision, which gave same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide.

The resolution was passed 13 to 2 and now goes to the full House for further debate. Rep. Heather Scott [photo above] defended the measure saying it was not about defining marriage – but about states’ rights.

“Rights are unalienable and they come from God and they don’t come from government. So if we start down this road where the federal government or the judiciary decides that they’re going to create rights for us, then they can take rights away.” Scott said. She also said she did not believe marriage was a fundamental right.

The Idaho Press reports:

The emotionally charged committee hearing started with a mass walkout in protest from audience members, with some returning to deliver in-person testimony. Dozens were heard, with an estimated 225 total people signing up to testify on both sides of the matter. The majority of in-person testifiers spoke against the resolution, detailing experiences with friends and family, personal struggles with their own identities, and state and religious separation.

Same-sex marriage in Idaho predates the Obergefell decision, being legally recognized since 2014 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case Latta v. Otter. Sue Latta, the plaintiff in Latta v. Otter, testified in opposition to the bill. “We are not asking for special rights, we are asking for equal rights,” Latta said. “We have fought very hard for these rights, and these rights extend beyond the state. There are federal implications to our ability to be married.”

Heather Scott last appeared here in February 2024 for her bill to ban the composting of human remains because people might dig up the bodies and eat them. (Yes, really.)

Scott first appeared here in 2020 when she called Idaho’s Republican governor “Little Hitler” over COVID lockdowns, which she compared to concentration camps.

She appeared here in 2022 when she held a talk on “the war of perversion against our children” by the LGBTQ community and invited a militia group to the stage.

Scott first made national news in 2017 when she defended white nationalism in a Facebook post.

Later that year she was stripped of her committee posts when she said that women only get Idaho leadership posts if they “spread their legs.”  

Photos show Scott, an Oath Keepers supporter, brandishing the Confederate battle flag at her campaign events.

The final video below shows the gallery walking out during Scott’s rant in favor of “state rights.”



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