LANSING, Mich. — A Republican lawmaker from Michigan took to social media, making multiple posts on X calling for a ban on gay marriage.
"Make gay marriage illegal again. This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme," Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford) wrote on his X account Monday.
In 2004, Michiganders overwhelmingly voted to make same-sex marriage illegal in the state, passing Proposal 04-2 and amending the state's constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Over a decade later, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Fourteenth Amendment required all states to grant and recognize same-sex marriages in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. This ruling took precedence over Michigan's constitutional amendment, making same-sex marriage legal in the state.
Obergefell v. Hodges ruling was the culmination of multiple lawsuits at the time, including DeBoer v. Snyder, in which Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was involved as a private attorney.
Nessel, a gay woman herself, helped the same-sex marriage question reach the U.S. Supreme Court through her litigation of the DeBoer v. Snyder case.
Nessel pushed back against Schriver's post on X, replying that he "want[s] only to hurt those you hate."
Schriver returned to X and shared a video of former President Barack Obama from a senate debate saying that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. Schriver went on to say that "America only 'accepted' gay marriage after it was thrusted into her by a perverted Supreme Court ruling."
Obama later supported same-sex marriage while president in 2012
Nessel continued to push back against Schriver's posts on her X account.
"To the lawmakers like Representative Schriver pushing these dangerous ideas: Please explain how dissolving my marriage, or that of the hundreds of thousands of other same-sex couples living in America, provides a benefit to your constituents or anyone else," Nessel wrote.
Schriver is no stranger to controversy, receiving pushback from voting against banning child marriage and voting to not close a marital rape loophole back in 2023.
Schriver was also stripped of his staff and committee assignments in February following a post of an image of a racist ideology he made on social media.
