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By Sarah K. Burris WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that he didn’t support the marriage equality decision in 2015 when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision. The landmark Supreme Court decision came as a result of Ohio’s refusal to recognize the marriage of Jim Obergefell on the death certificate of his husband after he died. Obergefell and his husband were married in another state where it was legal but Ohio refused to recognize the marriage due to its own 2004 Defense of Marriage Act, modeled off of the national law passe…