"The measure argues that the court's 2015 ruling applied a definition of liberty wouldn't have been recognized by the country's founders and calls the ruling's conceptions of due process a "dangerous fiction." The measure also called different-sex marriage "the basic of the United States' Anglo-American legal tradition, for more than 800 years.""
""The government did not create families or marriage, but they have to recognize that the family is the fundamental building block of society," Wisniewski said in a committee hearing. "The strengths that these two complementary natures of a father and a mother give strength, direction and stability to the family and therefore to society as a whole.""
"While Wisniewski's comments imply that children benefit more from having parents of different sexes, numerous studies have shown that children of same-sex parents are happier and healthier than kids with different-sex parents. Additionally, a Cornell University review showed that 75 out of 79 studies supported this finding."
Idaho state Republicans introduced a joint memorial asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage across all fifty states. This represents a repeat attempt, as Republicans tried the same measure the previous year without success. The memorial argues that the court's ruling applied a definition of liberty unrecognized by the nation's founders and characterizes the ruling's due process conception as a "dangerous fiction." State Rep. Tony Wisniewski, who introduced the measure, contends that marriage laws should remain under state jurisdiction. He argues that different-sex marriage represents the foundation of America's legal tradition and that children benefit from having parents of different sexes, though research contradicts this claim.
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