Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, staunchly defended her unsuccessful move to kill the tax conformity bill today, saying the measure shouldn’t permit same-sex couples to file joint Idaho tax returns unless the Idaho Constitution is amended to remove the court-voided ban on same-sex marriage. “I just think that we have a problem, because we’re trying to have it both ways,” she said. “It’s cover, is what it is.”

Scott noted that two Democratic lawmakers introduced a personal bill today to remove the constitutional ban. “I think that we should hear all ideas,” she said. “That’s my point – we either remove it from the Constitution, or we don’t.”