Tennessee proposed legislation could bypass marriage age requirements – By Olivia Michael (WTVF) / April 5, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Marriage between “one man and one woman” is the focus of a new bill making its way through the state legislature. Supporters say it would provide an alternative marriage option for couples, but opponents say it’s discriminatory.
Chris Sanders with the Tennessee Equality Project said the specific “one man and one woman” text flies in the face of federal law.
“They may want something that we don’t have access to. They may be sore losers about the Obergefell 2015 Supreme Court decision,” Sanders said of proponents of this new bill. “But that’s the way it goes.”
The legislation states “one (1) man and one (1) woman may file with the office of the county clerk in the county in which one (1) of the parties to the marital contract resides a document entitled “Record of Marital Contract at Common Law’.”
