Posted on 09/07/2022 3:35:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said he expects there will be enough support from his party to pass a marriage equality bill this month.
Democrats have not yet attracted the 10 Republican senators they need to pass the bill in the evenly divided chamber, but negotiators are making progress, Tillis said.
The legislative push to codify same-sex marriages comes after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the high court reconsider the decision establishing a marriage right. Polling shows adult Americans strongly favor marriage equality, potentially giving Democrats a wedge issue if Republicans block the measure.
Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat, and Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine are leading the talks, which now center on an amendment addressing religious liberties. Tillis said he and some of his GOP colleagues are generally supportive of what’s currently being discussed.
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America on the road to hell.
Seeing as even California voted against “gay marriage” it seems unlikely that the majority of Americans support it.
He is a disgusting RINO...even led the fight for our constitutional ban on homo. marriage that was so blithely struck down.
Now he’s changed that position completely.
Wretched wretch.
Between the entrenched Deep State, the Left and RINOs, this country, as with the near entire Western civilization, is headed for a downfall unlike seen since the Fall of Rome.
Stop being a Republican.
His response to me, in part:
“The House recently passed legislation that would codify the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the right to marriage for interracial and same-sex couples. I support codifying the right to marriage in federal law. I am working closely with my Senate colleagues to ensure that legislation to codify the right to marriage does not in any way limit or inhibit religious freedom.
As Senator, I believe that all individuals should receive equal treatment under the law. This is as true for the LGBTQ+ community as it is for any other American.
I also strongly oppose any effort to infringe on any American’s First Amendment rights to religious freedom. I will only support legislation that maintains the existing law in North Carolina and across the country regarding marriages between two people and does not include any restrictions on the religious liberty rights of individuals and religious institutions.”
Yeah...BS.
Mel old buddy, why do we need to codify the court decisions? The occupant of the WH just called your party a threat to this country, and you think this is important? Hello? What a maroon.
And WHAT does that mean to that collection of politicians in DC?
“Polling shows”, doubt it.
Why is the state in the business of sanctioning individual private relationships?
The state has no interest in this.
The only reason for it with heterosexual couples is they can procreate and creat the next generation of citizens, which does give the state some reason to be involved.
Homosexual couples cannot through their daily natural actions creat children, so there is no reason for the state to be involved at all in those relationships.
However it’s a lost cause to make any rational argument against the homosexual brown shirts… the courts have normalized this long enough now that it will become law. Government resources will now be wasted on these relationships, which is all at the end of the day theS folks want…
Does it codify polygamy and group marriage? Or are all unusual marriages not equal under the equality bill?
Honestly the republicans have decided social issues are more important to discuss then crime and inflation. Will not win elections this round.
Is there an opposition party in the Senate at all?
Interesting that 48 Dem senators, 2 indepent senators and a dem VP are able to get 87000 new IRS agents, 3.2 trillion dollars spent, 80 billion dollars to Ukraine and other BS, yet 50 rep senators are helpless.
He is a helminth. I should have voted for Hagan.
If you believe that, you have already lost the argument.
State laws recognizing marriage have been a way to keep the government OUT of private relationships. The State has been forced to recognize time-honored concepts of family life and procreation - Liberty. As you point out, it is for those who matter.
It's complicated.
The GOP Senators DO oppose some of the crap the Democrats want. But they need Democrats to give them what THEY want, which is:
1) Open borders
2) A global open market in labor
3) Offshoring productive industries
4) Financialization of the economy
5)) Severing the medium of exchange function of money from the store of value function.
6) Usury as the main engine of consumption.
7) Denying the people their natural, healthy love of their nation
8) Overseas wars on behalf of alien peoples without recompense for our sacrifice.
9) Forced "diversity" with its attendent decline in standards and inevitably accompanying violence.
When you speak of "opposition", you are looking for a party that opposes BOTH the Democrat AND GOP agendas, both of which are evil and destructive - and, no, that party does not exist yet.
HJ you need to fix the images on your home page.
They don’t work. You and I some of the oldies.
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