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• RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE ARE THE LATT PLAC TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE AND PARTNERSHIPS

RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS

The Senate took an historic step Tuday, passg legislatn that would enshre same-sex marriage rights to law and grant gay unns feral vote to pass the Rpect for Marriage Act was bipartisan – 61 to 36 – wh a signifint bloc of Republins jog every Democrat approvg the landmark bill.

Tammy Baldw, the first openly gay person to serve the Senate, said s passage should allay the ncerns of same-sex and terracial upl worried their civil marriage uld be stripped away. Senators approved the bill  rponse to ncerns the Supreme Court – wh a 6-3 nservative majory – would reverse s 2015 cisn regnizg the legimacy of gay marriage jt as overturned June the Roe v. "A number of Republins argued the bill would trample on the rights of church and other fah-based anizatns which would be punished if they refed to participate or regnize gay unns.

Mike Lee troduced one amendment to mimize threats to relig anizatns and said relig anizatns, schools and small bs would be harmed by the bill which requir stat that do not regnize the legimacy of gay marriage to accept same-sex upl who have legally wedd another state. Chuck SchumerFor Chuck Schumer, today’s vote the Senate to enshre gay marriage is more than jt a legislative victory, ’s a personal triumph as Senate majory lear’s youngt dghter, Allison, married her wife 2018 – a unn that once seemed ironclad but that me to this summer when the U. Cens Bure 2019 timated that there were 543, 000 same-sex married uple hoeholds and 469, 000 hoeholds wh same-sex unmarried partners livg Majory Lear Chuck Schumer is "extremely disappoted" that there were not at least 10 out of 50 Republins willg to e forward to support the gay rights legislatn, spokman Jt Goodman said a statement.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Republin Senator Rob Portman told reporters, "We were very, very close" to movg toward passage of a ph to enact a feral law regnizg gay marriage arose after nservative U.

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GAY MARRIAGE

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.

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THE ARE THE LATT PLAC TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE AND PARTNERSHIPS

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Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple.