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UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Sahil Kapur</a></span> and <span class="byle-name">Kyle Stewart</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">WASHINGTON — The Hoe passed legislatn Thursday that would enshre feral protectns for marriag of same-sex and terracial upl.</p><p class="">The vote of 258-169 sends the Rpect for Marriage Act to Print Joe Bin, who praised Congrs for passg the bill and is expected to sign to law. <a href=">The Senate passed the bill</a> last week by a vote of 61-36.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Democrats were unified favor of the bill, while most Republins both chambers voted agast . Thirty-ne Hoe Republins supported the legislatn Thursday, and one voted prent. </p><p class="">“Your love is your choice,” Hoe Majory Lear Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said on the floor Thursday, sayg there is “no reason” to believe that Republin appote on the Supreme Court won’t want to <a href=" target="_blank">revis precents on LGBTQ rights</a> after havg overturned Roe v. Wa. </p><p class="">“The pursu of happs means you n love whom you choose,” he said, addg: “I am shocked that nservativ that have a libertarian bent believe that somehow we ought to get volved this. It’s not the ernment’s bs.”</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Rebekah Monson, Andrea Vigil" height="1718" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Rebekah Monson, left, and Andrea Vigil at a weddg ceremony at the marriage license bure Miami on Jan. 6, 2015.</span><span class="ptn__source">Wiledo Lee / AP file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">The legislatn — led by Sen. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay person elected to the Senate — would ensure that the feral ernment regniz marriag that were validly performed and guarantee full benefs “regardls of the uple’s sex, race, ethnicy, or natnal orig.” It would not, however, require stat to issue marriage licens ntrary to state law.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Hoe Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was prent to gavel down the vote and announce the bill's passage. Loud applse broke out on the Democratic si of the chamber, while a few Republins joed clappg.</p><p class="">The bill was amend rponse to Senate GOP mands. It clarified that relig anizatns wouldn’t be required to perform same-sex marriag and that the ernment would not be forced to protect polygamo marriag.</p><p class="">The revisns meant the Hoe had to vote aga after <a href=">passed an earlier versn</a> July.</p><p class="">Former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the first openly gay member of Congrs, attend the vote the Capol.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">“It’s a sign of enormo polil change Ameri,” he said an terview. “And ’s meangful for people. It’s real. It’s not a symbolic gture. I know a lot of married gay and lbian people who have been worried ever sce Clarence Thomas <a href=" target="_blank">said what he said</a>. So this is reassurance to them, as well.”</p><p class="">The legislatn was passed <a href=" target="_blank">amid fears</a> that the nservative Supreme Court majory might revis the right to same-sex marriage after rcd the right to an abortn. It reflects rapidly growg public support for legal same-sex marriage, which h a new high of 71% June, acrdg to<a href="> Gallup trackg polls</a> — up om 27% 1996.</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="1080" width="1920"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="156676677517"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">LGBTQ muny members fear rollback as Hoe vot favor of Rpect for Marriage Act</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Dec. 8, 2022</span><span>02:46</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=LGBTQ muny members fear rollback as Hoe vot favor of Rpect for Marriage Act& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">“After the uncertaty ed by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs cisn, Congrs has rtored a measure of secury to lns of marriag and fai," Bin said a statement. "They have also provid hope and digny to lns of young people across this untry who n grow up knowg that their ernment will regnize and rpect the fai they build."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Bin also thanked members of both parti who champned the bill, sayg, "We showed that ’s possible for Democrats and Republins to e together to safeguard our most fundamental rights."</p><p class="">In the Senate, 12 Republins voted wh unanimo Democrats <a href=" target="_blank">to pass the bill</a>, which sent back to the Hoe. The GOP proponents were an eclectic group, cludg retirg Sens. Rob Portman of Oh, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Richard Burr of North Carola; centrist al-makers like Mt Romney of Utah, San Colls of Mae, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carola; a learship member Joni Ernst of Iowa; and nservativ Todd Young of Indiana, Shelley Moore Capo of Wt Virgia, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Cynthia Lummis of Wyomg.</p><p class="">In the Hoe, fewer Republins voted for the bill Thursday than supported the earlier versn. Seven Republins who voted y July opposed Thursday's bill: Cliff Bentz of Oregon; Mar Diaz Balart, Brian Mast and Maria Salazar of Florida; Dan Mser and Stt Perry of Pennsylvania; and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey. Another, Burgs Owens of Utah, voted "prent" Thursday after havg supported the bill July. Two other Republins — Mike Gallagher of Wisns and Jaime Herrera Btler of Washgton — moved the other directn, supportg the bill Thursday after havg voted agast the earlier versn.</p><p class="">Frank, who attend a bill signg ceremony wh Pelosi and Senate Mory Lear Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday, reflected an terview on the bill’s passage, 26 years after the Defense of Marriage Act banned feral regnn of same-sex marriage.</p><p class="endmark">“I was here for the birth of DOMA. 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