Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana SJ15: Resolution on Obergefell
Status: Failed, May 23, 2025
What the bill says
A joint resolution of the senate and the house of representatives of the state of montana calling on the united states supreme court to reverse the obergefell v. hodges decision.
From the engrossed text:
A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA CALLING ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO REVERSE THE OBERGEFELL V. HODGES DECISION. WHEREAS, the decision by the United States Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. (2015), is at odds with the Constitution of the United States and the principles on which the United States was established; and WHEREAS, liberty has long been understood as individual freedom from government action, not as a right to a particular governmental entitlement; and WHEREAS, Obergefell involves a definition of "liberty" that the framers would not have recognized, because it rejects the idea captured in the Declaration of Independence that human dignity is innate and instead suggests that it comes from the government; and WHEREAS, when the framers proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" and are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," they referred to a vision of mankind in which all humans are created in the image of God and are therefore of inherent worth; and WHEREAS, Obergefell undermines this vision by declaring that citizens must seek dignity from the state; and WHEREAS, Obergefell relies on the dangerous fiction of treating the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution as a font of …
Sponsors
- Phalen, Bob (R, 17) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (S) Died in Process
- : (S) Missed Deadline for Revenue Bill Transmittal
- : (S) Tabled in Committee
- : (S) Committee Report
- : (S) Hearing
- : (S) Hearing
- : (S) Referred to Committee
- : (S) 1st Reading
- : (S) Introduced
- : (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
Subjects: General Joint Resolution, Courts, Family Law
Common questions
- What is SJ15?
- SJ15 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Resolution on Obergefell.
- What does SJ15 do?
- In its own words: A joint resolution of the senate and the house of representatives of the state of montana calling on the united states supreme court to reverse the obergefell v. hodges decision.
- What is the status of SJ15?
- Failed as of May 23, 2025. Latest action: (S) Died in Process (May 23, 2025).
- Who sponsored SJ15?
- Phalen, Bob (R, 17).
- Where is the official record for SJ15?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1985
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