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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Depends.
What kind of dog?
Can I marry our budgie and then list our two bearded dragons as dependents?
Yeah, they will regret that some day. There is so much wrong with our culture, it's unlike when I grew up. One of my favorite movies to rewatch is the Time Machine when I can watch it and imagine going to a different time.
None of them mean squat, do they?
Yup, you can sense it.
Can’t leave this up to the states. It’s just too important a virtue signal./s
Yup, you can sense it.
There’s that feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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.
The GOP has plenty of principles, convictions, and values. YOU must decide if they are yours, or not.
This is another reason for an Article V Convention of the States to end or severely limit the lame duck sessions of Congress. I can only imagine what’s next before Jan. 2023.
Lame duck Congresses always save that time to pass their evil legislation.
This can be overturned first by SCOTUS (like they did with DOMA), then by a future, saner Congress.
However, it should NOT become a campaign issue at this time. Too many brain-dead Gen. Z voters out there.
Why can a marriage not involve two women, three men, a transman, two transwomen, a sheep, a dog, a rabbit, a goat, and a gerbil? Just one big happy family ...
Why is this even being decided in Congress? Like abortion, this should be decided by each individual State, not a mandate from the Federal Government.
At least three of those clowns are retiring.
Makes me sick.
Led by Romney.
Putrid.
You’ll notice Lindsey Graham, nor Tim Scott didn’t join in the vote. Can’t make it too obvious that you’re a homo, despite everybody knowing it, or at least suspecting it.
Rick Santorum was right. Polygamy, bestiality, and pedogamy are on the horizon.
SCOTUS won’t touch this with a 10-foot pole.
Oh, that myth died a quick death for me many years ago.
Are they all closet bisexuals?
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