Ted Cruz latest Republican to push again in opposition t SCOTUS' homosexual marriage ruling - Axios

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday became the newest Republican to voice opposition to the Supreme court's ruling to legalize homosexual marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, asserting on an episode of his podcast "The Cloakroom" with conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler that the ruling turned into "naturally incorrect."

Why it concerns: The Supreme courtroom's contemporary ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade has triggered many Democrats and activists to warn that different prison precedents comparable to contraception and homosexual marriage could be next to be overturned.

In his concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the courtroom should rethink opinions conserving equal-intercourse relationships, marriage equality and access to contraceptives.

What they're announcing: "Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, disregarded two centuries of our nation's history. Marriage changed into at all times an issue that turned into left to the states," Cruz pointed out.

"We noticed states before Obergefell that had been moving — some states had been moving to permit homosexual marriage. different states have been moving to permit civil partnerships. there were distinct requisites that the states have been adopting and had the courtroom no longer dominated in Obergefell, the democratic method would have persevered to operate."

"In Obergefell, the court talked about 'no, we recognize better than you guys do,'" he said. "Now every state have to sanction and enable homosexual marriage."

"I believe that choice was obviously incorrect when it was decided. It turned into the courtroom overreaching."

concerning being overturned, Cruz talked about he agreed with the Supreme court's proposition that Roe v. Wade became "qualitatively different" to different precedents because it handled "the taking of a human life."

Cruz delivered that it might be "more than a little chaotic" for the Supreme courtroom to overturn homosexual marriage and that he would not consider the present justices have "any urge for food for overturning any of those choices."

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) instructed newshounds in may additionally that he also believed that Obergefell became "wrongly decided" however said he believed that it was "settled law" and that he would be "greatly surprised" if it were overturned, enterprise Insider pronounced.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) earlier this yr went as far as to assert that Obergefell created a right "no longer even mentioned within the charter" and hence called the courtroom's "independence and the legitimacy...into question," per MSNBC.

Cornyn later instructed Insider that he didn't trust concerns about homosexual marriage were "cost effective inference" in response to the leaked draft document revealing the Supreme court docket turned into poised to overturn Roe.

State of play: Some Republicans, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have sought to downplay the probability that the Supreme court docket would rethink different precedents in the wake of the overturning of Roe.

Congressional Democrats are preparing legislation to codify nationwide contraceptive entry, LGBTQ marriage and parenting rights — and even probably lengthy-settled precedent on interracial marriage, Axios' Andrew Solender writes.

When asked the place they stood on such efforts, greater than 20 Senate Republicans — including a couple of considered as moderates or bipartisan dealmakers — declined to commit to a position.

Cruz is a longtime opponent of the Obergefell ruling.

The massive picture: in line with a Gallup ballot released closing month, a record excessive of seventy one% of americans say they assist criminal same-intercourse marriage.