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The Dent County Commission voted unanimously Monday to observe one year of "mourning” over the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision that gay couples have the constitutional right to marriage.
Tuesday morning, Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles said the commission will meet in special session Tuesday or Wednesday to rescind that order "out of respect for veterans and those currently serving in the military."
He said all three commissioners are expected to vote to rescind the decision.
The observance of mourning was to come in the form of lowering the flags at the Dent County Courthouse and Judicial Building to below half-staff on the 26th day of the month from July 2015 to June 2016.
The vote Monday came after Skiles filed a letter into the public record protesting, “the U.S. high court’s stamp of approval of what God speaks of as an abomination.”
The letter details Skiles’ opposition to gay marriage and proposes lowering of the flags so “all who see these flags at this lowered position be reminded of this despicable Supreme Court travesty,” he wrote.
Joining Skiles in the unanimous vote Monday were commissioners Gary Larson and Dennis Purcell.
MORE ON THE STORY IN THE TUESDAY EDITION OF THE SALEM NEWS AND AT THESALEMNEWSONLINE.COM.
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