Is Obergefell Solid?
By 
I mean, I’m skeptical given the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, I have a very solid rule that never betrays me but that actually now has: anytime Idaho comes up in the news, it’s going to be horrible. I mean…should we revisit the Bo Gritz obit? Or the image above, from an Idaho right-wing rally.
My whole life, this has been true, but maybe for once it’s not!
A memorial asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage lost some support in the Legislature. Idaho lawmakers voted Tuesday on a rerun of a 2025 memorial asking the nation’s highest court to “overturn” its landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Gay marriage has been legal in Idaho since 2014 under a federal appeals-court ruling in another case.
But this year, the proposal got two more no votes in the House than in 2025, meaning 17 Republicans joined every Democrat in voting against it. The final vote was 44 to 26. “At the risk of probably committing political suicide … this entire argument is rooted in the Bible,” said Grayson Stone, a long-term substitute for a sick Twin Falls Republican lawmaker. Stone said parts of the Bible instructs people how to shave. “I just don’t understand why we have to apply the Bible to specific aspects of our life, but not all of it. So I will be voting against this bill.”
Stone, who is running for the seat, represents one of the districts where the vote changed from the 2025 resolution to the 2026 resolution. He’s filling in for Rep. Don Hall, R-Twin Falls, who replaced former Rep. Lance Clow, who voted yes in 2025.
The 2026 memorial’s sponsor, Rep. Tony Wisniewski, R-Post Falls, said the state had the “duty and the right” to recognize a specific definition of marriage. “It is not the intent of overturning the Obergefell decision to tear apart bonds”, Wisniewski said on the House floor before the vote. “Those are something that are innate to us as humans. What we object to is the debasing of the term of marriage to that of something that is abhorrent to many of us.”
It’s unclear how far this memorial could get. The 2025 memorial passed the House but was not taken up in the Senate. Popular support for gay marriage has soared over the past few decades. It’s hard to find public opinion polling in Idaho, but a 2022 Statesman poll showed 49% supported legal same-sex marriage in Idaho.
Never sell Gorsuch short of course, but if gay marriage is now a 50/50 issue in America’s most aggressively revanchist state…….