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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Also note the EVERY demonicRAT voted FOR this abhomination.
Full faith and credit to public acts of States is in the Constitution, so I’m afraid this is allowed by the “necessary and proper” clause.
Border Collies
You should be upset that 12...roughly 1/3 of the GOP voted for this tripe. Tells you exactly what kind of influence grass roots voters have with them....NONE.
Not even ordinary RINOs either, but rural Republican states like Iowa, Wyoming, West Virginia, Indiana, Alaska...their Republican senators voted pro-homosexual.
Disturbing, man.
Heck I will come to the wedding.
The official Mormon church just this week put out a statement endorsing this crap. Not kidding.
Preview of coming attractions. More “bipartisan” bullshit while gullible GOP voters are the ones who take it up the ass.
I wouldn't expect anything less. My father was an FDR Democrat his whole life. Probably voted for all Democrat Presidential candidates from Coolidge on. Know he voted for FDR, and Truman. Voted for Adlai Stevenson twice, John Kennedy, Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Jimmy Carter. His last vote would have been in 1977, as he died in June the next year. If he was alive today, he wouldn't recognize the party, and he sure as hell would be voting Democrat. I know that for a fact. He'd be appalled to see where the party has gone.
Indeed.
I read the Mormon church decided to embrace same sex marriage. At least Mitt is in sync.
one final stab in the back by the RINO’s!!!!
god I hate them
Disgrace!!!!!
“And everyone who thinks voting for someone just because they have an “R” beside their name is winning “
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Three of the 12 Republicans who voted for this...I voted for over the years. They said all the right things at the time. This is why I do not trust them at all anymore. They say what you want to hear when running for the greatest jobs in the world.
It is a uniparty.
Polygamy is logically the next step.
Do the dogs get a vote?
Disgusting.
I think if anyone challenges this law, it will be found unconstitutional. The federal government has no control over marriages under our constitution.
Same as ROE V Wade, this is a state issue.
I know what they want and need...I vote for them.
“Expect massive suppression and punshishment of religious liberty as a result.”
Oh, bullsh*t. The 10-foot-tall, ATF Stalinist morons surrendered 10 minutes into the Waco firefight to women and children shooting back at them.
There’s nothing heroic or invincible about these leftist pricks who can’t figure out which bathroom to use.
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