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Tennessee's Straights-Only Marriage Option Won't Pass This Year

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male-female couples only won’t get passed this year.There had been public outcry over the initial version of the bill, which didn’t include a minimum age for marriage.

It was amended to say marriages would not be available to people who hadn’t reached the age of majority, which is 18 in the state.But the outrage “hobbled the legislation,” The Tennessean reports, and so its House sponsor, Republican Rep.

Tom Leatherwood, said Wednesday that he wished to send the bill to a study session this summer. “The move essentially kills the bill for the session, though it could re-emerge next year,” the paper notes.The bill’s goal was to provide a pathway to marriage for those who didn’t want to be associated with the state’s usual marriage licensing process because it’s now available to same-sex couples. “This bill was to say have your license, but do not deny our understanding of marriage or force ministers to choose between signing a document they disagree with or performing a marriage that has no legal effect,” David Fowler, director of the conservative Family Action Council of Tennessee and a former state senator, told The Tennessean.However, the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom means that no minister has to perform a marriage they don’t endorse, whether for a same-sex couple, an interfaith couple, or anyone else.

But Fowler said signing a conventional marriage license still would create problems for those who oppose marriage equality, simply because both same-sex and opposite-sex couples can get a license.Ever since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v.

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