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CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
* gay marriage vote live *
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed bipartisan legislatn Tuday to protect same-sex marriag, an extraordary sign of shiftg natnal polics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thoands of same-sex upl who have married sce the Supreme Court’s 2015 cisn that legalized gay marriage natnwi. It as the LGBTQ muny has faced vlent attacks, such as the shootg last weekend at a gay nightclub Colorado that killed five people and jured at least 17.
Tammy Baldw, a Democrat who is the first openly gay senator and has been workg on gay rights issu for almost four s, said this month that the newfound openns om many Republins on the subject remds her “of the arc of the LBGTQ movement to beg wh, the early days when people weren’t out and people knew gay people by myths and stereotyp. 5, 2022Follow our live verage of the Supreme Court heargs that ps ee speech agast gay rights.
Nightclub his state, which five people were killed, unrsred the importance of fendg the rights of gay Amerins. Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights.