Tennessee seeks to strip gay marriage rights.

Mark Pody, a Republican lawmaker in Tennessee, first proposed a bill to outlaw same-sex marriage in the state in 2016. (Image: Mark Humphrey / AP)

Nearly four years after the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal throughout the U.S., Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are attempting to turn back the clock with a bill aimed at banning gay marriage in the state.

The “Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act,”…