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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If I understand the bill correctly, it specifically says all states have to honor any “marriage” that was sanctified in another state. Since California allows pedo-marriage (as long as the kid’s parents approve, like many invading cultures do), then a man can move his child bride from California to another state and force that state to honor his “marriage” to his victim.
How could they do that? Declare this law unconstitutional?
Protect interracial marriage?? Never knew that needed protecting
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What others races might a human marry?
Stuff like this:
” orcs or goblins ... and elves, lizard people, dwarves, vampires, zombies, etc.
Sounds nutty, right. But just wait a little. For example, there are ‘cat’ children. And when demonic activity becomes more apparent, we will see more.
No, we are reading tea leaves. It is a domino, and with each we come closer to what will be commonplace persecution.
And that folks is why the RINO establishment despise Trump so much - because he delivered for social conservatives. The RINOs just want them to keep quiet and deliver the votes and campaign contributions. Keep quiet and don’t embarrass them....just do as you’re told.
Defense of Faggotry bill ...
I think you mean Bob Jones U.
In any case, in 2020, the Supreme Court held in Bostock v. Clayton that sexual orientation fell within Title VII's definition of "sex". So, the same federal laws that were used to wipe out BJU's tax exemption because of a prohibition on interracial dating could already be used to wipe out any tax exemption because of a same-sex marriage prohibition. In other words, that cat was let out of the bag a couple of years ago.
The only difference is the religious exemption issue that has been recognized a few times by the Surprise Court, and actually is in this bill as well. So all that being said, I can't see how this law changes anything.
Let the truth ring out.
Marriage is a State issue. Not a Federal issue (except maybe for embassies and military bases).
Abortion is a Sate issue. As soon as sme Lindsay McLame senator tries to make it a Federal isue, we lose.
“In many states, anti-miscegenation laws also criminalized cohabitation and sex between Whites and non-Whites. In addition, Oklahoma in 1908 banned marriage “between a person of African descent” and “any person not of African descent”; Louisiana in 1920 banned marriage between Native Americans and African Americans (and from 1920 to 1942, concubinage as well); and Maryland in 1935 banned marriages between Black people and Filipinos.[6] While anti-miscegenation laws are often regarded as a Southern phenomenon, most states of the Western United States and the Great Plains also enacted them.
Although anti-miscegenation amendments were proposed in United States Congress in 1871, 1912–1913 and 1928,[7][8] a nationwide law against mixed-race marriages was never enacted. Prior to the California Supreme Court’s ruling in Perez v. Sharp (1948), no court in the United States had ever struck down a ban on interracial marriage. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court (the Warren Court) unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional. After Loving, the remaining state anti-miscegenation laws were repealed; the last state to repeal its laws against interracial marriage was Alabama in 2000.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States
What are they going to do? Assign a Feddie to each same sex couple who will spend each night in bed with them providing them with “protection”. The Feddie will unwrap the condom and chew it for a while to soften it up.
Three amendments offered by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Mike Lee of Utah to strengthen the religious liberty and freedom exemptions in the bill were voted down.
They included provisions to prevent government agencies from targeting those who oppose same-sex marriage, such as the IRS revoking organizaions’ tax-exempt status, the Education Department instituting honor codes, or private individuals being denied business licenses.
Most Republicans feared that the carveout already included in the legislation for nonprofit religious groups that don’t want to provide services for same-sex marriages, such as churches, would fail to offer protection against others’ litigation.
“My amendment simply prohibits the federal government from discriminating against schools, businesses and organizations based on their religious beliefs about same-sex marriage,” Mr. Lee said. “That is all it does.”
Protect interracial marriage?? Never knew that needed protecting
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It doesn’t. It was bundled in so the Rats can use it as a talking point in the 24 campaign and accuse Republicans of being racists.
If a gay or lesbian couple married in a state where it is legal goes to another state where it is not, that state would be compelled to recognize their marriage regardless of what their laws may say.
America is finished.
I am in an interracial marriage. I’ve never felt threatened by our Republican’s views on the world, or I wouldn’t be a Republican. There are a fringe few, though. What I see, en mass, is an across the board Republican rejection of those who would make such statements or support folks who want to be a white only club. Being Conservative is not about color at all, it’s about ideology.
The survival of America rests not on skin color, but our collective belief in freedom and self reliance. This intermixing with gay rights vs. all rights is a ploy to display democrats as the standard bearer of freedom. We all know it’s bullshit. We all know it’s a team of ideology, not race.
On gay rights, I’ve never understood why we make so much of what two, consenting individuals, want to do with each other. It’s not up to us to be anything but good examples of what must be best... and let the chips fall where they may. Good examples, and solid children who are responsible, educated and family orientated should be our goal.
Using the law to limit the competition is not evidence. Our lives and the lives of our children should be evidence enough of what we believe and support.
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