Posted on 11/16/2022 2:34:47 PM PST by ebb tide
(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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Matt Walsh had an excellent take on this. They included some religious freedom wording in the bill, but it’s so squisy as to be essentially worthless.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘦). 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭?
There are a lot of civically ignorant, or outright indifferent people in this country, and many of them vote.
On a different note, I support the idea of a Convention of States, and would love to see an uncorrupted convention happen in my lifetime; but, considering the reaction of some states to the Bruin decision earlier this year, both Lindsey Graham and Joe Biden talking about federally codifying Roe after the Dobbs decision, and finally this travesty that just passed I do not believe that Congress would honor anything to come of that convention.
Churches - mainstream ones, for sure, the most known and populous - already are in on this nonsense.
They don’t need to be suppressed. They are cheerleaders already.
Further cementing God’s judgment on this country firmly in place.
Fixed it.
Can the Federal government regulate this? Or is it a right reserved by the states, should SCOTUS overturn it's prior ruling?
We tried to get rid of Murkowski but she is stealing her reelection as we speak.
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.
As I mentioned on another thread:
The goal in the long-term isn’t just legalization of same-sex marriage. It is criminalization of opposition to it.
Many in the Republican Party expect us to be quiet on this issue and still support them on whatever economic policies that they favor. Not me. I’m prepared to go to prison.
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Fox News has people brainwashed that if they hit some magic number they are going to transform into something else.
Your first hint should’ve been the four years that they protected Biden and then the two years that they passed his agenda.
If you can’t figure this out, there’s no hope
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Make the world safe for perverts....
That is the US foreign policy today.
Most of them can certainly outrun us. I don’t move very fast these days.
But some of them are older than dirt itself.
Who are the 12???
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Amen.... it is coming!!
Same group of rino’s that need to be voted out of office ASAP.
The abortion bill they pass will be something like: Save the children act.
evil!!!! ALL OF THEM!!!
As for the GOP? It can go hang itself in a restroom stall with the DEMs. AS for me unless it is a standout solid Conservative I am done with the GOP. I had been Independent since 1994 in that time since the GOP only put one worthy POTUS in office and the GOP leadership along with DEMs turned on him. The GOP as a party is dead. The death blow came today with this vote being the final act of a party now ran by enablers. The GOP barely has the house and even still it has no leader. Same mistakes same results. The Party leadership votes should never be allowed to be secret.
Leave the Republican party. It already left you.
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