Gay Marriage Debate | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE—47 REPUBLINS VOTE ‘Y’
• 47 HOE REPUBLINS VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS. YOUR TURN, SENATE GOP.
• PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GOP DEBATE: TED CZ SAYS GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN BT LEFT TO STAT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE

HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE—47 REPUBLINS VOTE ‘Y’

Clarence Thomas: Court Should Rensir Gay Marriage, Birth Control Decisns Next After Overturng Roe (Forb). There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn. And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep.

47 HOE REPUBLINS VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS. YOUR TURN, SENATE GOP.

There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay.

Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom. The real breakthrough, gay Republin operativ say, me wh the nomatn of Donald Tmp.

Though evangelils flocked to his ndidacy, nservative gay rights activists also saw an opportuny. A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them. “For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny.

PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL

Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group. Gay rights activists and Republins acknowledge there is still much work to be done wh the GOP.

Gay rights advot the party said Republins missed an opportuny to change the platform’s text 2020.

His admistratn mted to endg the HIV/AIDS epimic wh 10 years and phed to crimalize homosexualy abroad. “Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere. “As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

“I thk even wh Christians the gay [marriage] issue, that ship has sailed. That's bee the polics around gay marriage are a ltle weird.

As recently as 2004, Republins ma opposn to gay marriage a top-tier e (some nservativ believe saved Gee W. But as public opn began to turn, Democrats reached a new nsens support of gay marriage and started gog on offense. The natnal GOP platform still oppos gay marriage.

As the Hoe GOP's still-strong opposn to marriage equaly nfirms, there's legimate reason to qutn the assumptn that gay marriage is a settled issue. While there are legimate policy challeng at play, the spir of the bat has taken a turn, wh anti-gay "groomer" slurs om the 1970s makg a eback. It's not hard to see how policians lookg to distguish themselv this arena might turn to gay marriage, perhaps wh the goal of gettg a new ban ont of the urt.

GOP DEBATE: TED CZ SAYS GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN BT LEFT TO STAT

Take Texas, where the state GOP reaffirmed s opposn to gay marriage their party platform jt last month. Only one Texas Republin the Hoe, Tony Gonzal, voted "y" on protectns for gay marriage yterday. Weber said public views of gay and lbian rights and same-sex marriage have “transformed radilly” across the natn sce Congrs passed the Defense of Marriage Act 1996.

Erickson spearhead the anizatn’s efforts to mobilize morate Amerins to support marriage for gay upl by changg the nversatn om legal rights and benefs to the importance of makg a lifetime mment ont of fay and iends. ”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman.

”Support for gay marriage among the Amerin public and both parti has ntued to rise. “The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says. Ron DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law to the newly adopted Texas Republin platform, which refers to homosexualy as “an abnormal liftyle choice.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who, 2012, was the first openly gay person to be elected to the Senate, to lobby her Republin lleagu hop of nfirmg support for the measure om 10 of them, which would give Democrats the 60 vot they need to overe a ’s been slow-gog so far, wh GOP members patg the bill as electn-year polics, sayg they haven’t read the bill yet, argug that ’s unnecsary and downplayg the threat of Supreme Court reversal – spe Jtice Clarence Thomas suggtg a ncurrg opn the Dobbs v. Gay marriage don’t offend me nearly as much as offendg feralism do through this legislatn. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nsel, who is gay and married, is one of many marriage equaly supporters ncerned the state's nservative urt uld roll back "semal precents" that stck down bans across the week, Er Knott, executive director of Equaly Michigan, told Bridge Michigan that the Roe cisn suggts the High Court is termed to dictate social policy.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBehd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.

11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L. Senators that backg would give them a polil quiet work helps expla how a bill to ensure regnn of same-sex marriag across the untry went om beg the subject of an electn-season polil manver that few expected to be enacted to an iative embraced by a cisive majory of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the fal acts of the Democratic-ntrolled Congrs.

GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE

Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee who me out as gay 2010, and Centerle Actn, a centrist nonprof fund by him and Regald Brown, a lawyer Mr. ImageKen Mehlman, seen 2010, has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly Heisler/The New York TimMr.

Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace. Tmp; Ben Gsberg, the proment Republin lawyer; Mary Cheney, the openly gay and married dghter of former Vice Print Dick Cheney; Tom Ridge, the former homeland secury secretary unr Mr. More about Annie KarniA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Proment Gay Republins Helped Smooth Way for the Marriage Bill.

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