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- RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
- POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
U.S. Senate vot on legislatn protectg gay marriage on Thursday were put off until after the Nov. 8 ngrsnal electns, as negotiators failed to w enough Republin support to ensure passage. * update on gay marriage *
Hodg that legalized gay marriage 2015 after ments om Jtice Clarence Thomas suggted same-sex marriage protectn uld be threatened.
While this law do not dify same-sex marriage, will protect all legal same-sex unns the event that Obergefell is overturned, spe dividual state bans on gay marriage. They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.
Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.
POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
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.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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.