Posted on 12/08/2022 9:20:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The House on Thursday passed a bill to safeguard marriage equality, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk and marking the first time Congress has provided federal protections for same-sex marriage.
The legislation, titled the Respect for Marriage Act, passed in a 258-169-1 vote. Thirty-nine Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the measure.
The Senate approved the measure in a bipartisan 61-36 vote last week, notching a significant win for negotiators after months of talks that followed Justice Clarence Thomas floating the idea of overturning the Supreme Court decision protecting same-sex marriage.
Twelve Senate Republicans joined all voting Democrats to pass the bill.
Following the bill’s passage in the Senate, Biden said he would “promptly and proudly” sign it into law once it arrived on his desk.
The measure enshrines federal protections for same-sex couples, requiring that the federal government and all states recognize marriages if the pair was wed in a state where the union was legal. It also cements protections for interracial couples, ordering states to recognize marriages regardless of “the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.”
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isn’t ‘marriage’ a religious institution?
This should be a state’s right to make that decision, but the 10th amendment was thrown out the window decades ago.
Not according to former Justice Kennedy. It was the right thing to do, regardless of law or the wishes of the voters.
I can’t wait for the first mosque to be forced to perform a homosexual marriage.
I wonder if the GOP even has the balls to campaign on empty promises to repeal this one, or are they just going to stay mum on this and hope people don’t notice.
I wish they’d show a roll call of who voted for it.
Is there ever a Senate vote where all the Democrats don’t vote the same way?
You can stop any comments right here, “I wonder if the GOP even has the balls?”
GOP and Balls should NEVER be used in same sentence unless describing the total LACK OF BALLS of the GOP.
“isn’t ‘marriage’ a religious institution?”
Not since governments, monarchists started taxing marriage. Probably for centuries now.
No good will come from this bill. It is another loss of personal freedom.
and if it is challenged and makes it to USSC?
“Is there ever a Senate vote where all the Democrats don’t vote the same way?”
That’s how it’s done. TBF, I guess that’s how it’s done in modern day Society or with oligarchs or authoritarians and statis forms of Gov’t.
The low info voters don’t understand anything so they just go along with it, and since low information voters are trained from a young age they just keep feeding the machine.
Yahweh is judging America.
We need a spiritual awakening.
Paul Singer made it his mission to get the GOP to abandon their opposition to gay marriage, they’re not going to stop taking his millions of dollars now.
I think this might be the House vote they are talking about:
Another step forward in making the planet safe for perverts.
Congress is just trying to normalize its own behavior.
Nope, neither the state governments nor the federal government have the power to redefine natural law. If a state legislature declares a chicken to be an elephant and levies a fine of $200 for anyone who WON’T call it an elephant, it won’t stop it from being a chicken. Two men cannot be “married” anymore than zebras can fly. The government pretending they are doesn’t make it so.
Thanks for finding the LOL moment in this!
I guess thr Repukes aren’t smart enough to send out a Religious equity Bill that allows each person to practice their religion as interpreted in their sole decryption without fear of fines or prosecution. Let the Rats RINOs be against that.
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