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- SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL, PAVG PATH FOR PROTECTG SAME SEX UNNS
- BOTH KANSAS SENATORS VOTE NO, AS U.S. SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL, PAVG PATH FOR PROTECTG SAME SEX UNNS
Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate. ”The legislatn me about after the nservative Supreme Court majory overturned the nstutnal right to an abortn, sparkg fears that the jtic may also revis liberal urt precents that enshre marriage rights for gay and terracial bill would require the feral ernment to regnize marriag that were valid a state when they were performed. Passage of a measure that would protect gay marriage rights natnwi crossed a key thrhold Wednday when the Senate feated a filibter and set the stage for fal approval shortly.
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BOTH KANSAS SENATORS VOTE NO, AS U.S. SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL
Tammy Baldw, the first openly gay person elected to the Senate.
Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat, the first known gay polician elected to the US Senate.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
“I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. Portman first dited his support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out to the Oh Republin as gay. In a 2014 bate for his first Senate n, Tillis, who was at the time servg as North Carola’s Hoe speaker, said he would “formally fend” the state’s gay marriage ban.
More than a ago, Burr voted to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, although he prevly voiced opposn to gay marriage.
Murkowski has long voiced support for same-sex marriage, argug a 2013 op-ed that the ernment should stay out of cizens’ private liv and not prohib gay marriag. Connecticut, which prohibed stat om banng gay marriage and ntraceptn, rpectively. But the urt’s newly nstcted 6-to-3 majory — seen as the most nservative nearly a century — offers the tantalizg possibily for opponents of gay marriage that the lg uld also be vot uld put Republin senators a difficult posn, wh Senate Mory Lear Mch McConnell seekg to downplay cultural hot button issu where his party is at odds wh public opn orr to protect GOP ndidat the fall midterm many Republin senators are wary of alienatg their culturally nservative base, which is disillned by the pace of social change the Uned Stat and has ltle tert seeg their elected reprentativ dify those rights.