Republican State Rep. Mark Pody is battling same-sex marriage in Tennessee. In addition to filing a bill that would, he believes, simply nullify the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision that found same-sex couples do have a right to marry....

"I believe God talks to me in prayer," he told supporters at a Nashville event designed to get his bill nullifying same-sex marriage some attention. God, Pody says, told him "this is your role," to fight marriage equality.

"When this ruling came," Pody told the group, speaking of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, "I believe God told me this."...

"I have made thee a watchman under the house of Israel," Pody said, quoting the bible verse God, he claims, personally spoke to him. "Therefore, hear the word at my mouth and give them a warning from me, when I say unto the wicked, 'Thou shall surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require from thine hand.'"