Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) urged the Virginia state legislature on Monday to repeal an amendment in the state constitution that bans same-sex marriage in the commonwealth.
Warner and Kaine, both former governors, claimed they had concerns about the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the right to same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.The senators stated they were worried that many Virginians would lose the right to"marry the person they loved" if the Supreme Court overturned the ruling as it did in Roe v. Wade last year when the court returned the matter of abortion to states.
The senators pointed at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's arguments that the Constitution’s due process clause does not secure a right to an abortion or any other substantive rights, and they urged the court to apply that reasoning to other landmark cases, including the same-sex marriage law.
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