A bill in Indiana’s legislature that would have raised that state’s marriage age from 15 to 18 seemed headed for passage until Democrats offered an amendment to repeal a 1997 state law declaring marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
That law, and others like it, went by the wayside in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled gays have the same marriage rights as heteros.
The Democrat who introduced the amendment didn’t expect it to be controversial. After all, it wouldn’t change anything; it would only remove a law from the books that had already been declared unconstitutional by the nation’s highest court.
He was wrong. He underestimated his GOP colleagues’ bigotry and homophobia. They killed the bill, rather than let this provision pass, and 15-year-olds can still get married in Indiana.
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