Florida Bill Would Repeal Ban On Same-Sex Marriage

The Floridian reports:

Florida Sen. Tina Polsky, a Democrat, filed a bill Tuesday that would repeal a state statute exclusively defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. While the 1997 statute has been inoperable since a 2015 Supreme Court ruling nixed all gay marriage bans, Sen. Polsky wants Florida to strike down its anti-gay language.

Polsky has carried measures to repeal Florida statute 741.212 since 2021, though all attempts died either before the session began or in early committee meetings. Other lawmakers, including current state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando), have tried since 2017 to get the bill across the finish line, but to no avail.

Some of the first anti-gay legislation in Florida was signed by Democrat Gov. Reubin Askew in 1977 when he greenlit a bill banning gay people from adopting children or getting married. That ban was upheld in 2005 by U.S. District Judge James Moody, father of US Sen. Ashley Moody. That ban would be struck down ten years later with the groundbreaking Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which required states to recognize marriages between same-sex couples.

Read the full article. You may recall that in 2014 it was then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi who led the crusade against marriage equality. Many other states still have unenforceable bans on the books.

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