from Christian Today
The Coalition for Marriage (C4M) has called for laws permitting gay marriage in the United Kingdom to be revisited, mirroring similar moves in the US.
Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue a marriage licence to a gay couple, has reignited debate on the issue after launching a legal challenge to the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v Hodges decision.
That decision essentially declared gay marriage legal across the entire US, overturning bans in states like Davis’ own one of Kentucky. Davis claims that the decision was “egregiously wrong” and “legal fiction”.
In a similar vein to the overturning of Roe v Wade, Davis is seeking to make gay marriage, like abortion, an issue for the states rather than the federal government.
In the UK, the Coalition for Marriage has said it supports such moves, adding that in Britain the legalisation of gay marriage had no democratic mandate, being introduced by the Tories under David Cameron.
“Redefining marriage to include same-sex couples is like redefining the term square to include triangles,” said C4M.