 Res.26, a proposal to amend the U.S. constitution that would define marriage as only between one man and one woman, and S. 1558, which would reserve to the states or their political subdivisions the power to display the Ten Commandments, to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and to recite the national motto "In God we trust".In 2007, Gotto was challenged by the first openly gay man to run for public office against an incumbent in the State of Tennessee, Shane E. Burkett.