Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are shaking things up.
Big time!
The Tennessee House on Thursday passed a bill that would allow banks, hospitals, and other companies to refuse to recognize gay marriage.
Republican lawmakers behind the bill say it’s all Constitutional.
Life Site News reported more on Tennessee lawmakers’ move to challenge gay marriage:
The Tennessee House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday that would allow private citizens and organizations to refuse to recognize homosexual “marriages,” in a major challenge to the LGBT movement.
House Bill 1473, which cleared the state House 68-24 with overwhelming support from Republicans, would exempt banks, medical institutions, and other private entities from recognizing what the bill refers to as “a purported marriage between individuals of the same sex.”
The bill additionally states that government officials may not face discipline or sanctions for “declining to celebrate or officiate at a marriage or commitment ceremony that falls outside the definition of marriage provided in this code.”
The legislation pushes back against Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized homosexual “marriage” nationwide.
“Private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or by the Supreme Court’s purported interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in Obergefell v. Hodges,” House Bill 1473 says.
All Republicans in the Tennessee House voted for the measure, while all Democrats voted against it.
Another huge W for Tennessee
— 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨 (@HereditRebellio) February 20, 2026
SCOTUS says we can’t outlaw the blasphemy of gay marriage? Fine, then we will legally protect anyone who refuses to participate in it. Now the alphabet mob can’t legally force a church to participate in its blasphemy against The Lord https://t.co/V2CilQdNwa
Fox 17 reported the bill will also protect judges who refuse to recognize same sex marriage:
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.HB1473 would also stop the Board of Judicial Conduct from disciplining judicial officers, such as judges, if they chose not to celebrate or officiate a same-sex marriage.
“Members, this is a bill that does not change existing law,” said the co-sponsor of the bill Tennessee Rep. Gino Bulso. “It simply clarifies existing law.”
He said that is based on a Tennessee law (Tennessee Code 36-3-113) which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
“Tennesseans already affirmed what we have known for all of history: marriage is between one man and one woman,” said Bulso. “This legislation protects religious liberty in the Volunteer State by clarifying that private citizens can never be forced to recognize any other definition.”
