"I had not expected to be fighting to protect a right that's already been won in court," said Sen.

[riversedge]

of gosh. what a hard task --for anyone!!

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The Midwestern pioneer lobbying Republicans on same-sex marriage

Tammy Baldwin is about halfway to her goal of getting 10 Republicans to filibuster-proof a same-sex marriage bill. Finding the final five will be harder.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/25/tammy-baldwin-republicans-same-sex-marriage-00047447



Sen. Tammy Baldwin stands with her hands in her pockets.

“I had not expected to be fighting to protect a right that’s already been won in court,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin about marriage equality. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

By Burgess Everett

07/25/2022 04:30 AM EDT

Ten years after making history as the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin is blazing another trail.

The Wisconsin Democrat is the vanguard of her party’s frantic search for 10 Senate Republican votes to write same-sex marriage protections into law. If Baldwin and her allies can come up with a filibuster-proof majority, Democrats will notch a surprise victory on an issue that bedeviled Congress for years — until the Supreme Court stepped in.

It’s not a task Baldwin thought would ever fall to her after the high court struck down restrictions on same-sex marriage in 2015. Summing up the task at hand in an interview, she said: “I had not expected to be fighting to protect a right that’s already been won in court.”

But after Justice Clarence Thomas mused about revisiting the Obergefell v. Hodges decision as a next step after to the court’s Roe v. Wade reversal, and 47 House Republicans backed codification of marriage equality, Baldwin got a herculean assignment from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. She’s about halfway to the GOP mark she needs to break a filibuster, with five Republican senators signaling their support for same-sex marriage legislation — but finding the next five will be even tougher.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Eventually, we will have to fix the Subversive Court and its outlaw rulings.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. I was today years old...

When I found out Tammy Baldwin is gay.

This is all so stupid, and a complete waste of time and energy. Let people marry the person they love. Why do we have to keep trying to take away other people’s rights?

It’s sickening.

[jimfields33]

3. Actually I'm glad they are getting a bill together and getting it passed

Legislation through judges was always a risk. I’m hoping congress will pass bills on everything from now on. That’s really the correct way to do it.

[Wounded Bear]

6. True, but in our system it is too easy for a minority power bloc to block legislation...

[Rebl2]

4. Same here

[Lonestarblue]

5. The Christian right wants to legislate all our personal rights away.

Does it hurt them if gay people marry? No.

Does it hurt them if a woman has an abortion? No. No one will ever force them to have an abortion.

Does not being able to pray in public hurt them? No. Indeed their Bible states in Matthew 6:5-6

5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Do their policies cause harm to other people? Yes. And that is their whole premise—to hurt the people who do not adhere to their brand of medieval religion.

[calimary]

7. And the problem proliferates with every televangelist and other

spotlight-seekers, microphone hogs, and attention-whores - the showboaters Jesus Himself denounced.