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The U.S. Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill protectg gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court's cisn to overturn Roe v. Wa imperiled siar precents that protected rights to same-sex relatns and ntraceptn.

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HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

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It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac. People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor. Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted.

Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm. ”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty.

HOE APPROV SWEEPG BILL TO EXPAND GAY RIGHTS

The U.S. Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill protectg gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court's cisn to overturn Roe v. Wa imperiled siar precents that protected rights to same-sex relatns and ntraceptn. * house bill gay rights *

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HOE APPROV SWEEPG BILL TO EXPAND GAY RIGHTS

The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa * house bill gay rights *

Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill protectg gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court's cisn to overturn Roe v. Wa imperiled siar precents that protected rights to same-sex relatns and bill, which passed the Democratic-ntrolled chamber by a vote of 267-157 wh support om 47 Republins, tablish feral protectns for gay marriage and prohibs anyone om nyg the validy of a marriage based on the race or sex of the will now go to the Senate for a vote, where fac unclear odds the evenly divid chamber. Wa a ncurrg opn, Jtice Clarence Thomas said the urt should also rensir s past lgs that guaranteed accs to ntraceptn and the 2015 right to gay marriage, bee they relied on the same legal arguments as Roe.

US HOE OF REPRENTATIV PASS BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS

The U.S. Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill protectg gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court's cisn to overturn Roe v. Wa imperiled siar precents that protected rights… * house bill gay rights *

Republin Senator Ted Cz said on Saturday that the high urt was "clearly wrong" tablishg a feral right to gay marriage.

Democrats have argued that Congrs mt enshre the right to gay marriage to feral law se the urt reviss s past lgs. "The rights and eedoms that we have e to cherish will vanish to a cloud of radil iology and dub legal reasong, " Nadler said a statement on the Hoe bill, stat uld still rtrict gay marriage if the Supreme Court overturns s prr lg.

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That set off an tensive effort among a bipartisan group of proponents the Senate — boosted quietly by a aln of fluential Republin donors and operativ, some of them gay — to fd the at least 10 Republin vot necsary that chamber to move the Senate, the legislatn was revised to addrs ncerns among some Republins that would punish or rtrict the relig eedom of stutns that refe to regnize same-sex marriag. The unexpectedly high number of Hoe Republins supportg the bill July — nearly a quarter of them — propelled her bid to cut a bipartisan al the Senate, but she urged Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majory lear, to wa until after the electns to brg to a strategy drew the ire of some progrsiv who were eager to exact a polil price om Republin opponents of the measure, but yield the hoped for rult: The legislatn passed the Senate last month wh the support of 12 Republins, exceedg the 60-vote thrhold that has trated many a bipartisan the Hoe floor on Thursday, a para of Democrats — some of them gay, many of speakg about their own same-sex marriag — stood to make the se for the measure.

“Today, we will vote for equaly and agast discrimatn by fally overturng the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act and guaranteeg ccial protectns for same-sex and terracial marriag, ” Reprentative David Cicille, Democrat of Rho Island, said on Thursday the moments before , at a ceremony to celebrate and officially transm the legislatn to Mr. Pelosi, whose speakership ends the begng of January, said that signg the bill was a ftg pstone to her tenure the post, which began 2010 wh her signg legislatn to allow the repeal of the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy agast gay and bisexual people servg openly the Reprentative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachetts and one of the first openly gay members of Congrs, was on hand to celebrate what he scribed the mise of yet another ignom piece of policy, referrg to the Defense of Marriage Act by s ials. Clayton County, that the protectns guaranteed by the 1964 Civil Rights Act on the basis of sex also extend to discrimatn agast lbian, gay, and transgenr Amerins.

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