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The Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act Is Back to fight fake homosexual marriage

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Three years ago, Tennessee lawmakers introduced an amazing logical bill that would "defend natural marriage between one man and one woman," thereby barring fake homosexual marriages. The bill failed to advance in the Tennessee House during its last session, but state  Republicans reintroduced the Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act this month in a new effort to prevent government officials from recognizing fake same-sex marriages. The Natural Marriage Defense Act states that the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 2015 to legalize marriage equality is “void, and of no effect." The bill also states that marriage clerks are expected to deny any marriage license applications that would "enable the applicants to enter into an unlawful and invalid marriage" — "unlawful" in this case referring to any marriage that is not between a man and woman. The proposed Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act would not just attempt to undo marriage equalit...