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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: Chauncey Gardiner

No more pesos, it is MAPs...Minor Attracted Person...and they are a protected class in the test tube country of Calmefornia.


201 posted on 11/16/2022 6:21:25 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Our church believes in healing, but not that every time the pastor says so. That is God’s business.


202 posted on 11/16/2022 6:22:34 PM PST by madison10
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To: ebb tide

America is finished. RIP.


203 posted on 11/16/2022 6:24:13 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: ebb tide

>>massive defeat for conservatives<<
Marriage or Holy Matrimony is a sacrament instituted by God.

It wasn’t enough that gays had civil unions giving all rights as a married couple, they had to poke their finger in God’s eye by perverting what is the Lords.

Not a massive defeat for conservatives, it is and will be they’re own destruction for this blasphemy.


204 posted on 11/16/2022 6:26:46 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: rdl6989

The Stupid Party.


205 posted on 11/16/2022 6:26:55 PM PST by abbastanza
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To: jpp113

If only we had courts and justices who actually understood what you just wrote!?!


206 posted on 11/16/2022 6:33:24 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: Conservative4Life

Same group of rino’s that need to be voted out of office ASAP.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I assume all of them are opposed to Trump’s reelection as well.


207 posted on 11/16/2022 6:38:40 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: Sam Gamgee

The Mormons approved it yesterday. Saw it on FR.


208 posted on 11/16/2022 6:44:08 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: ebb tide

Collins, Murkowski, and Sullivan are “Catholics.”


209 posted on 11/16/2022 6:57:39 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: ebb tide

From what I understand, this bill would require states to honor the marriage contracts of any other state, so if, for example, Michigan lowered the age of consent to age 12 to satisfy the Muslim community, for example, guess what? Florida would have to honor such perverted marriages.


210 posted on 11/16/2022 7:00:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Roadrunner383

“The SCOTUS isn’t going to reverse their approval of gay marriage.”

Don’t be so sure. The Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade might find the same flaw in its previous decisions on gay sex and “gay marriage”.

This law should be challenged in court.

Besides that, it is yet ANOTHER act of war against the people.


211 posted on 11/16/2022 7:03:10 PM PST by unlearner ( Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: ebb tide
Wow, that explains a plethora of fund raising calls from the GOP today. They wanted money before conservatives found out how they screwed us. Burr is a POS who is retiring I hope he stays in DC because we do not want him back in NC.

I will not even donate to Trump if he works with the same fund raisers as the GOP. I held my nose and voted for that backstabber Murphy and for the new guy Budd, but I have donated no money this election cycle (wife and I normally targeted donations for certain candidates). We donated last cycle to the Georgia recount, to a Florida candidate and Murphy. Never again. It is not only time to leave the GOP it is time to cut off their small donor money stream. They treat conservatives the way RATS treat minorities.

212 posted on 11/16/2022 7:04:29 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: ebb tide

I can’t see any way that is Constitutional.


213 posted on 11/16/2022 7:05:42 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ebb tide

Yay we won the House. So?


214 posted on 11/16/2022 7:18:07 PM PST by jersey117
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To: hoagy62

As for the unspoken remedy... who’s going to show up for our side? Sadly, IMO, too old and too few.

Forget about a Pinochet also. The military has been cleansed.


215 posted on 11/16/2022 7:21:25 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: ebb tide

This is why it doesn’t matter that we lost the senate


216 posted on 11/16/2022 7:24:10 PM PST by jersey117
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To: hattend
We tried to get rid of Murkowski but she is stealing her reelection as we speak.

She had practice stealing her reelection last time (after she lost the primary).

217 posted on 11/16/2022 7:49:39 PM PST by ELS
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To: LachlanMinnesota
I guess it is imperative to destroy the family and the culture that held us together for a couple hundred years.

The leftist politicians, and all of the degenerate people who support them, are just the pawns on the chessboard. The player who is controlling them is no less than Satan himself, which is why they seem inexorably drawn toward pushing anything that will destroy the family, corrupt children, and oppose Christianity (and only Christianity).

218 posted on 11/16/2022 7:53:17 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: ebb tide

Expect a lot of ‘lame duck’ legislation to get crammed through, especially on the strength of those who are leaving office.


219 posted on 11/16/2022 8:07:31 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Osage Orange

Yeah, you’re good to go.

If it were a Chihuahua or toy poodle, I’d say No.

Just remember not to consummate the marriage.


220 posted on 11/16/2022 8:28:23 PM PST by MplsSteve
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