The reason they needed this legislation is exactly because of white supremacist Republican fascists like Clarence Thomas.
He would rule against interracial marriage in a New York minute if such a case ever came before the Supreme Court. 
Posted on 11/29/2022 3:33:36 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday passed landmark legislation that would codify federal protection for marriages of same-sex and interracial couples, with Democrats securing enough votes to overcome opposition from most Republicans.
The Respect for Marriage Act was approved 61-36, with unanimous support from Democrats and 12 GOP votes after defeating a filibuster and rejecting three amendments offered by Republicans who oppose the bill.
The measure now returns to the House for a final vote before it can go to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law.
The Senate vote reflects the rapidly growing public support for legal same-sex marriage, which hit a new high of 71% in Gallup tracking polls in June, up from just 27% in 1996 when Gallup first began polling the issue.
"We're making a really positive difference in people's lives by creating the certainty that their ability to protect their families will be lasting," Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the author of the bill and first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate, told NBC News.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the vote Tuesday that he was wearing the same tie he wore to the wedding of his daughter and her wife. "It's personal to me," he told reporters.
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There should be NO legislation during a lame duck session
Because of the TERRIBLE THREATS to interracial marriage in the United States, the US Senate simply HAD to act.
Effing clowns.
Haha the GOP is absolutely pathetic.
let the Christian persecutions begin
THankfully it was gutted out of it’s most serious flaws...number one problem was it left no room for religious liberty but I think Mike Lee got it included in the language. Also as I understand it is STILL up to the states as the feds can’t make state laws concerning marriage. It was severely weakened but of course it still inches us closer to the leftist position of anything goes.
Special treatment is NOT equal treatment.
Next up….interspecies
Protect interracial marriage?? Never knew that needed protecting
Inflation. Crime. Border. War in Europe. China aggression. Energy.
… And our US Congress is pettyfogging perverts.
The reason they needed this legislation is exactly because of white supremacist Republican fascists like Clarence Thomas.
He would rule against interracial marriage in a New York minute if such a case ever came before the Supreme Court.
This law would require states to honor all lawful marriages from other states, including those of same-sex couples. In that scenario a gay or lesbian couple residing in a state where same-sex marriage is banned could go to another state to get married, and upon their return their home state would be required under the Constitution’s Full Faith & Credit Act to recognize the marriage, even if it wasn’t legal under that state’s laws.
But, not all a'.. This nation is TOAST.!!
That really is how these idiots think. Never mind that Clarence Thomas is married to white women.
Word is this is so the IRS can ya k the tax exempt status of Christian churches.
They’ll go around as they did to cake bakers and ask them to participate and then sue those that refuse into oblivion.
The Republican party wants the votes of social conservatives. They just don’t want to represent them in congress.
Anyone who votes for a representative who despises their constituent is a useful idiot.
So.......when do I get to marry my sister? (sarc)
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