Posted on 07/19/2022 3:22:57 PM PDT by Ennis85
The House passed a bill that would provide protection for same-sex and interracial marriage under federal law, with Democratic lawmakers saying the recent Supreme Court ruling ending abortion rights could endanger other precedents.
The 267-157 vote on the Respect for Marriage Act comes the same week the chamber is also set to vote on the Right to Contraception Act. Both pieces of legislation would enshrine into law rights not enumerated in the Constitution but that the court has recognized in recent decades. Senate Democrats haven’t said if they will schedule votes on the House bills.
With these votes, Democrats are challenging Republicans to line up behind rights favored by most Americans. On the marriage bill, about four dozen GOP lawmakers joined with Democrats in support, while others dismissed it as a political stunt to protect rights that don’t need protecting.
Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.), a co-sponsor of the marriage legislation who is gay, said “millions of LGBTQ families…are worried about the Supreme Court’s intention to rip away more freedoms.”
Rep. Mike Johnson (R., La.) said that Democrats proposed the legislation so they could run ads in an election cycle. “This bill is just another superfluous exercise, this bill is completely unnecessary,” he said on the House floor.
Democrats are seen as the underdogs in November’s midterm elections in the House, and they have been rolling out a series of votes related to hot-button social issues. Many of the votes have been designed to underscore contrasts with Republicans headed into the elections rather than pass new law, as on issues like abortion there is little chance for compromise seen in the Senate.
GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) said Tuesday he expected his caucus to be split on the marriage bill and indicated party leaders weren’t pressuring members to vote
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Would this prevent individual states from enacting laws?
Lime SAME SEX MARRIAGE is the same as MULTI RACIAL MARRIAGES!!!
Abd the Pubbies just go along with this CRAP!
So essentially, this law is unconstitutional.
I note they didn’t include inter-religious marriages.
The leftists must be getting ready to try to exterminate the Jews again.
Yeah after roe v wade that was next up for sure. Fidiots. 😡
What Constitutional principles were invoked in order to justify this?
Isn’t the right to grand stand using government resources for the sake of re-election really the core of the first amendment?
Did Kennedy express both positions in the same decision?
Had to throw in the race card
Cowards cowards cowards. Afraid of Woke Communism.
Tell me again why I want Repubeicans in the majority?
Gosh, I had no idea that my almost 30-year marriage needed legal protection from anything.
I resent the fact that I and my Chinese wife have been lumped into the same bucket as faggots.
This is just hysterical attention getting behavior-comparing apples to oranges-same sex marriage is NOT real marriage-interracial man/woman marriage IS real marriage and was/is in no danger whatsoever...
Shameful! I hope my representative was not among them. Homosexuality is not normal.
gov goofballs
The "because corrupt, election year lawmakers said so" principle.
Is there a religious insistence on marriage between these alphabet couples or do they just want to spit on the institution of religion itself?
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