Same-sex marriage should be a state issue, according to Lindsey Graham.
Graham stated that it was being used to distract from inflation.
The federal government should not be in charge of defining marriage.
Lindsey Graham said that same-sex marriage should be a state-by-state issue, but he didn't say if he felt the same way about interracial marriage.
On Sunday, Dana Bash asked the South Carolina Republican if he thought Obergefell should be overturned.
I don't think so. He said that he did not think it would be overturned. I think states should decide the issue of marriage and abortion, that's what I've been saying for a long time.
Graham said he trusts the voters of South Carolina to make the decisions.
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Bash asked if Loving v. Virginia would apply to other issues and if it would protect the right to interracial marriage.
Graham said no. It is not possible to say yes. The point is here. You don't want to discuss inflation so we are talking about things that aren't happening. Talk about crime is not something you want to do. Politics is what this is all about. We're not talking about problems like unstable people having guns, we're talking about decisions that are still in effect.
He said he wouldn't allow the federal government to define marriage.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that Obergefell should be reexamined in light of the Wade decision.
The ruling that protected interracial marriage was not mentioned by Thomas. A white woman is married to a black man.
Same-sex marriage rights were protected by a bill passed by the House.
A representative for Graham forwarded a story from a newspaper in South Carolina that said the senator would vote against the same-sex marriage bill.
"I respect the voters in South Carolina and I'm going to allow this issue with my vote in Washington to be decided by them," Graham said, according to the article. Graham did not agree with the legal reasoning of Obergefell, but he respected it as the law of the land.
The article didn't mention interracial marriages.
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