Ohio Representative Jim Jordan says
he'll back a bill that would outlaw gay marriage in the District of
Columbia.
Jordan chairs the conservative
Republican Study Committee (RSC), which includes 175 members.
“I think RSC will push for it, and
I'm certainly strongly for it,” Jordan
told The Hill. “I don't know if we've made a decision
if I'll do it or let another member do it, but I'm 100 percent for
it.”
Last week, opponents of gay marriage in
the nation's capital said they would turn to Congress after a recent
Supreme Court loss.
The court rejected without comment an
appeal from gay marriage foes hoping to put the city's gay marriage
law up for a vote. The court's decision effectively upholds a lower
court's ruling that said such a question would violate the city's
Human Rights Act (HRA) that prohibits discrimination based on sexual
orientation.
"With a pro-marriage majority in
the new Congress we will explore a number of avenues to force the
District to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to voters,”
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage,
said in a statement. “As the four Court of Appeal justices who
dissented in this case made clear, the District of Columbia owes it
to the voters to allow them to decide the critical issue of marriage
which has existed since before there was a District of Columbia.”
Jordan attempted to block last year's
start of the gay marriage law, but his legislation garnered little
interest.
Any attempt to roll back gay marriage
in the District would face a steep incline in the Democrat-controlled
Senate and a near certain veto from President Obama.