Senate passes bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage over GOP opposition

NBC News ^ | November 29, 2022 | Sahil Kapur

[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.

[Svartalfiar]

WTF was going after inter-racial marriages....answer NO F^ING ONE!!

But if you vote against it, you hate black people...

[SunkenCiv]

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[reviled downesdad]

These folks will not let up until EVERYONE openly accepts the sinful immoral lifestyle.

They are incapable of accepting forgiveness because that would mean stopping the lifestyle, so the only thing they have is acceptance in this life because there will not be a next.

[entropy12]

The point is to capture more voting blocks.
No wonder the red wave fizzled. Senator Graham’s proposal to ban abortions after 15 weeks did the damage.

[PghBaldy]

Black men want to marry white women. White men want to marry Asian women and white women. Black women do not want black men to marry white women. These of course are stereotypes.

[GraceG]

“interracial marriage” WAS ADDED TO THIS TO “BOOST THE NARRATIVE”

[Coronal]

If SCOTUS were to reverse Obergefell, Loving could be considered fair game.

[SaveFerris]

[and first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate]

Yay! Another first for America!

[SaveFerris]

Heading right down the road like the Harlot of Babylon.

I don’t think the USA is the Harlot of Babylon in the book of Revelation, but it is doing an excellent impression.

And the Godless simply haven’t a clue.

[SaveFerris]

Never heard of Wisconsin electing Tammy Baldwin before now

[Big Brother Go to Hell]

WHAT “GOP opposition?” Didn’t something like 15 RINO senators sign on to this crap?

They included interracial marriage too? How many decades have passed since the Democrats and their Klan enforced laws against that, in violation of Numbers Chapter 12?

[Machavelli]

Everything is racial to the racist Demonrats.

[Vision]

While that's true, Democrats, masters of evil manipulation, included the non-issue of interracial marriage in the bill to skew the real issue of homosexuals redefining the concept of marriage to fit their desires.

Remember, homosexuals could get married to someone of the opposite sex and did have civil union rights in most states. But they would only be happy with redefining the definition of marriage to fit their needs. And this won't be the end of making them happy.

[Eleutheria5]

Inter-racial? GMAFB. Straw man position that nobody cares about.

[jpsb]

Ooops, sorry.

[Coronal]

12 Republicans voted for it, 38 didn’t.

[NKP_Vet]

If something is not in the Constitution it’s the purview of the States. Abortion and marriage are a State affair. This latest lunacy of Dems and their butt-buddy RINOs will go to the US Supreme Court and be struck down.

[BTerclinger]

[Golden Eagle]

All 50 Democratic senators and 12 Republicans

Roy Blunt
Richard Burr
Shelley Moore Capito
Susan Collins
Joni Ernst
Cynthia Lummis
Lisa Murkowski
Rob Portman
Mitt Romney
Dan Sullivan
Thom Tillis
Todd Young

[Jacquerie]

From what I’ve read, none of the pubbie amendments made it into the final bill.

Obergefell and Roe share the same foundation: horrid abuse of the 14th Amendment. Like Roe, Obergefell unleashed incredible societal damage. The so-called Respect for Marriage Act will accelerate the ongoing violence against religious freedom.