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BREAKING: Republicans join Democrats to pass same-sex ‘marriage’ bill in massive defeat for conservatives
LifeSite News ^ | November 16, 2022 | Raymond Wolfe

Posted on 11/16/2022 2:34:47 PM PST by ebb tide

BREAKING: Republicans join Democrats to pass same-sex ‘marriage’ bill in massive defeat for conservatives

Twelve Republican senators joined with all Democrats to pass the bill, which is set to be Joe Biden's first major legislative achievement on LGBT issues.

(LifeSiteNews) – In perhaps the greatest defeat conservatives have ever suffered at the hands of Republican Party, the Senate today advanced Democrats’ bill to enshrine same-sex “marriage” into federal law in a vote of 62 to 37.

Twelve Republican senators joined with all Democrats to pass the bill, the “Respect for Marriage Act,” including: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, and Todd Young of Indiana.

Democrats needed the support of 10 Republicans to clear the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Today’s vote came despite the objections of many of the most prominent conservative groups in the U.S., including the Heritage Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, thousands of Christian churches and institutions, and the overwhelming majority of Republican voters who oppose federal legislation to codify homosexual “marriage.”

The Respect of Marriage Act makes same-sex “marriage” the law of the land, ensuring that all 50 states must recognize such unions, regardless of state laws, in the event the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which mandates legal recognition of same-sex “marriage” nationwide.

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To: MplsSteve

Haha....nope Chip and Pecos are Male lesbians like me


221 posted on 11/16/2022 8:53:13 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: ebb tide

Sens. Susan Collins of Maine,...... Rob Portman of Ohio,..... Thom Tillis of North Carolina,..... Lisa Murkowski of Alaska,..... Mitt Romney of Utah,..... Roy Blunt of Missouri, .....Richard Burr of North Carolina,..... Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia,......Joni Ernst of Iowa,..... Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming,..... Dan Sullivan of Alaska,.... and Todd Young of Indiana.

If they can’t tll the difference on this vital issue then anything related to gender you can expect they’ll support. All of these need to go!


222 posted on 11/16/2022 9:28:16 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: jpp113

That’s been said for 160 years. It hasn’t ever worked.


223 posted on 11/17/2022 12:51:52 AM PST by ARW
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To: BipolarBob

All world 🌎🌍 governments are jumping on board with the reprobate agendas

Just as prophesied

Luke 17:26-32


224 posted on 11/17/2022 1:38:22 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ebb tide

I’m foolish enough to hold out a little hope for this. The Senate added some amendments to the bill passed by the Democrats last summer. Some of these are purportedly religious protection amendments. If the House can’t stomach language that grants something reasonable to their arch enemy, they may reject the bill as amended.

Stranger miracles have happened.


225 posted on 11/17/2022 1:54:56 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: ebb tide

Mostly the typical so-called lesser-of-two-evils-lie Rs. What a stupid concept.


226 posted on 11/17/2022 3:40:55 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: ebb tide

Todd Young...just got reelected in IN. .........


227 posted on 11/17/2022 3:50:29 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That’s right. Even John McCain became the media’s hated enemy the moment he became the Party R nominee for President in 2008.

When he missed the accolades of being a D in R clothing, he went back to his old ways after being re-elected to the Senate in 2010.


228 posted on 11/17/2022 3:50:53 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ebb tide

McConnell and his sell-out RINOs will be overruled by the US Supreme Court. Marriage and abortion is a state issue. Congress has nothing to do with it.


229 posted on 11/17/2022 4:32:35 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: mass55th

That Manchin voted for this perversion means one thing. He has no intention of running for re-election. No way in 40 hells he can fool folks in WV he’s a conservative. He’s never been a conservative and this BS proves it.


230 posted on 11/17/2022 4:48:19 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: ebb tide; P-Marlowe; Cronos; Salvation

Marriage control is at no point in the constitution granted as a power of the federal government.

Therefore, this is an unconstitutional law encroaching on a state power.

I hope it gets struck down on that basis.

I don’t kid myself. Almost all states will then pass similar laws in their own states, but at least it will have been done constitutionally.


231 posted on 11/17/2022 5:42:46 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: ebb tide

The people outside Lot’s door.


232 posted on 11/17/2022 6:21:10 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Osage Orange

;<)


233 posted on 11/17/2022 6:51:12 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: xzins

America is done. Put a fork in it.


234 posted on 11/17/2022 6:54:13 AM PST by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: P-Marlowe

That’s what John MacArthur says based on Romans 1, that God has “given us over”. Judgement is in process.

We see the depraved mind (given over) every time Washington opens its mouth.


235 posted on 11/17/2022 7:35:51 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: ebb tide

Actually, in a twisted way, I’m kinda okay with gay marriage.

I mean, why shouldn’t they be miserable, just like the rest of us?


236 posted on 11/17/2022 8:17:43 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: LibertyWoman; All

This will now have to go to the House, yes? Can we stop it there, either by vote or by keeping it from coming to the floor? I don’t know.


237 posted on 11/17/2022 9:54:09 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: ebb tide

I guess that settles it then. The Backstreet Boys can now marry.


238 posted on 11/17/2022 10:07:50 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
"Churches - mainstream ones, for sure, the most known and populous - already are in on this nonsense."

I respectfully disagree. The churches that are into abortion and buggery are losing memberships like crazy, while membership is growing in churches that push being saved by grace but living it like we mean it.

239 posted on 11/17/2022 10:10:06 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Try living in liberalland sometime. Where all the churches - MAINLINE, again - put up their rainbow and BLM banners, and advertise their “reaching out” days which is cover for “we support BLM and totally sympathize with your oppressed plight so rioting is OK; nevermind buggery”.

They are HUGE on libel and slander (i.e., false witness) pushed by all these liberals. They are apostate.


240 posted on 11/17/2022 10:51:04 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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