Six South Carolina Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to amend state law to define same-sex marriage as “parody marriage.”
The Marriage and Constitution Restoration Act argues that any marriages not between a man and a woman “fail to check out the human design.” The bill also defines marriage as a “union between a man and a woman.”
The legislation, which has been submitted to the House Judiciary Committee, seeks “to provide that ‘parody marriage’ policies are non-secular in nature” and “to prohibit the state from respecting, endorsing or recognizing any ‘parody marriage’ policy or policies that treat sexual orientation as a suspect class.”
The lawmakers seem undeterred by the June 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed the rights of same-sex couples to marry and meant all 50 states must perform and recognize such marriages.
The supporters of the bill argue that although there has not been “a land rush” on gay marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court’s judgement, there has been an increase in “persecution of non-observers by secular humanists and an effort by secular humanists to infiltrate and indoctrinate minors in public schools into their world view.”
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