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

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

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 said he looks forward to enacting it. “With today’s bipartisan Senate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, the United States is on the brink of reaffirming a fundamental truth: love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love,” Biden said in a statement.

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.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-tuesday-same-sex-marriage-bill-filibuster-rcna59125

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Has to go the House (this version is different from the House one).

Article updated.

Previous article -

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.

Original article -

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 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.

[beaglelover]

1. Fantastic!!! I have confidence in Nancy that she will get this version to pass the House easily!

And then it's on to Joe's desk and it becomes law!!!

[yankee87]

8. +1

K & R

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. But can the presently constituted SCOTUS decide that such a law is unconstitutional

if challenged?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I think the provision that Tammy Baldwin added in there

reduces the chance of that (despite the fact that it is still ridiculous why this type of thing even has to be codified here in 2022 ).

[TomSlick]

13. I think not. The bill is really quite modest.

The bill would codify what I think is already the law - that a marriage lawfully contracted in one state must be acknowledged in all states. I have long been convinced that the 1996 Defense of Marriage was unconstitutional under the Full Faith and Credit Clause - Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.

For example, in Texas, first-cousins may lawfully marry (I know - Ewww). Such a marriage must be recognized in other States that forbid such marriages. Similarly, a hand full of states recognize so called common law marriage. Such a marriage must be recognized by States that require marriage licenses and some form of solemnization.

[Cha]

4. "Interracial Marriage"!

Wtf do they think head Fascist POS Thomas has?

Where do they come up with this shit?

Can you even imagine how many Interracial marriages there are in the USA.. and will be?

Trying to take us back to the 1950s.

And, Kill our Social Security.

TY Dem Senate!!

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They had to preemptively put that in there

since the dumbass Thomas completely disconnects himself from his own reality and still threatens that particular precedent.

[Cha]

7. Dems are Amazing..

Dealing with Crazy Fascist-fake Christians.. Morning, Noon, and Night!

[Eugene]

9. The Supreme Court radicals are trying to turn back the clock.

Thomas has openly named every non-Originalist precedent as a target (Roe, Griswold - contraception, Obergefell - marriage equality) except Loving (interracial marriage) as fair game for review. That doesn't mean his fellow radicals haven't targeted that as well.

Every reform in the past 100+ years may be on the table.

[newdayneeded]

6. the only sad part is it took

Roe being overturned for dems to realize they need to codify these laws. If they would of codified Roe sometime in the last 30 years we wouldn't have to worry about a right wing Supreme court.

[bsiebs]

10. Here are the republican senators that voted for the bill....

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.)
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Someone has to be paying Tillis and Burr. I doubt they've suddenly experienced enlightenment.

I don't trust them. ❤️

[Lucinda]

17. Thank you for the info!

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[yellowdogintexas]

18. glaring absence of Cruz, Cornyn, Moscow Mitch and Rand Paul

but not surprising

[Mr.Bill]

19. When did Joni Ernst start being for

anything but castrating hogs?

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. An overwhelming majority of Republican FEMALE Senators supported it

Interesting, that.

[bsiebs]

21. Portman has a gay son... that changed everything about this issue for him in 2013...

“I’m announcing today a change of heart on an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about that has to do with gay couples’ opportunity to marry,” Portman told CNN.

Portman stirs mixed reaction with same-sex marriage reversal

It has to do with another revelation, one deeply personal. His 21-year-old son, Will, is gay.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/politics/portman-gay-marriage

[Warpy]

24. Both guys from NC? Land of Billy Sunday and Billy Graham?

Wow, I'm deeply shocked. I'm also shocked that Joni Ernst crossed the line this time, do I have to stop being disgusted by her?

I'm just thrilled that so many told the bigots and preacher to STFU and voted in favor of basic human rights.

Job's not done until my living body has as many rights than my corpse will.

[republianmushroom]

11. I like it

[JohnSJ]

12. Just maybe this can be one of the most historic lame duck Congress. Now, raise the debt ceiling,

negotiate the rail strike, and ban assault weapons

[iluvtennis]

15. Awesome news!

[Lucinda]

16. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Warpy]

22. Good, now pass something to protect the rights of half the population

to enjoy bodily integrity and choose their own medical care.

I dare ya, ya bastards.

[Darkstar53142]

23. The headline should have been,

"Senate Passes Bill to Protect Same-sex and Interracial Marriage From Evil Fascist Thugs Despite Opposition From Party of Evil Fascist Thugs."

[True Blue American]

27. Agree!

I watched the vote.

[J_William_Ryan]

25. The measure

is essentially reciprocity legislation.

Should the Court overturn Obergefell, states would be at liberty to ban the performance of same-sex marriage, but a ban state must still recognize the same-sex marriage from another state.

Same-sex couples in a ban state need only travel to a free blue state to get married and then return to their state of residence (sound familiar?).

This is likely why some Republicans agreed to the bill, the appearance of “states’ rights.”

The thinking may also be that with marriage reciprocity in place, authoritarian red states would refrain from banning same-sex marriage as it would have no practical effect.

But one shouldn’t underestimate the bigotry and hate of the right.

[True Blue American]

29. Mike Lee's

Religious exclusion did not pass.

[wryter2000]

34. That's good to hear

[True Blue American]

26. 61 to 36?

Sounds pretty bi- Partisan to me.

I watched the vote, the usual old party dead heads voted no. The decent Republicans voted yes.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Then you have retiring dumbasses like Teabagger Toomey (R)

who didn't vote at all. Looking forward to John Fetterman (D) taking over that seat!

[AlexSFCA]

31. Are those who didn't vote neutral or had a reason they couldn't vote?

[BumRushDaShow]

33. His position

pretzel-twisted an opposition to this bill and manufactured something that wasn't there due to how Tammy Baldwin's added provision was included.

He had already voted against the motion to proceed (cloture) so I expect to mitigate being considered a liar about his supposed support for the issue, he opted not to vote at all on the final bill. He's gone after this congressional session is done.

[AlexSFCA]

30. Even LDS supports this legislation!

Their official statement reads like something that would come out of episcopelian: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/respect-for-marriage-act-statement

LDS has been consistently not just against any recognition of same sex marriage but against non hetero orientation itself. They’ve certainly come a long way. Maybe even decades ahead of RCC (although that one is more of a criminal enterprise).

[BumRushDaShow]

32. I had heard that LDS had come out with that policy

ahead of the legislation, which was surprising. Of course you have LDS members like Mike Lee who apparently don't agree.

[wryter2000]

35. Someone needs to tell the father of that killer

They might remind him that LDS opposes substance abuse, too.

[Kath2]

36. Beautiful!

Wonderful! Let's do this!