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Contents:

• SENATORS PREVIEW TAILS OF RELIG RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHY SUPREME COURT GOT WRONG
• THE REAL IMPACT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON SOCIETY
• FOX NEWS HOSTS CONFED ABOUT WHETHER TO CALL GAY MAN MR. OR MS.
• YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, AMERI, GAY MARRIAGE IS JT THE BEGNG
• SENATE PASS LANDMARK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL BY MARY CLARE JALONICK PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 29, 2022 UPDATED 7:31PM POLICS ASSOCIATED PRS SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD US SENATE PASS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL, NOW HEADS TO HOE FOR FAL VOTE ONCE THE HOE VOT ON THE BILL, WILL HEAD TO PRINT JOE BIN'S SK FOR HIS SIGNATURE. WASHINGTON - 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. THE BILL, WHICH WOULD ENSURE THAT SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAG ARE ENSHRED FERAL LAW, WAS APPROVED 61-36 ON TUDAY, CLUDG SUPPORT OM 12 REPUBLINS. SENATE MAJORY LEAR CHUCK SCHUMER SAID THE LEGISLATN WAS "A LONG TIME G" AND PART OF AMERI’S "DIFFICULT BUT EXORABLE MARCH TOWARDS GREATER EQUALY." DEMOCRATS ARE MOVG QUICKLY, WHILE THE PARTY STILL HOLDS THE MAJORY BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRS. THE LEGISLATN NOW MOV TO THE HOE FOR A FAL VOTE. PRINT JOE BIN PRAISED THE BIPARTISAN VOTE AND SAID HE WILL SIGN THE BILL "PROMPTLY AND PROUDLY" IF IS PASSED BY THE HOE. HE SAID WILL ENSURE THAT LGBTQ YOUTH "WILL GROW UP KNOWG THAT THEY, TOO, N LEAD FULL, HAPPY LIV AND BUILD FAI OF THEIR OWN." FILE-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MONSTRATORS AND THOSE OPPOSED, RALLY OUTSI THE SUPREME COURT WASHGTON, D.C. (KEN CENO/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG) THE BILL HAS GAED STEADY MOMENTUM SCE THE SUPREME COURT’S JUNE CISN THAT OVERTURNED THE FERAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTN, A LG THAT CLUD A NCURRG OPN OM JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS THAT SUGGTED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ULD ALSO E UNR THREAT. BIPARTISAN SENATE NEGOTIATNS GOT A KICK-START THIS SUMMER WHEN 47 REPUBLINS UNEXPECTEDLY VOTED FOR A HOE BILL AND GAVE SUPPORTERS NEW OPTIMISM. THE LEGISLATN WOULD NOT FORCE ANY STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY. BUT WOULD REQUIRE STAT TO REGNIZE ALL MARRIAG THAT WERE LEGAL WHERE THEY WERE PERFORMED, AND PROTECT CURRENT SAME-SEX UNNS, IF THE URT'S 2015 OBERGEFELL V. HODG CISN WERE TO BE OVERTURNED. IT'S A STUNNG BIPARTISAN ENDORSEMENT, AND EVINCE OF SOCIETAL CHANGE, AFTER YEARS OF BTER DIVISIVENS ON THE ISSUE. RELATED: SENATE ADVANC SAME-SEX, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE BILL WH 12 GOP VOT A NEW LAW PROTECTG SAME-SEX MARRIAG WOULD ALSO BE A MAJOR VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS AS THEY RELQUISH THEIR TWO YEARS OF NSOLIDATED POWER WASHGTON, AND A MASSIVE W FOR ADVOT WHO HAVE BEEN PHG FOR S FOR FERAL LEGISLATN. 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. "OUR MUNY REALLY NEEDS A W, WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT," SAID KELLEY ROBSON, THE G PRINT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, WHICH ADVOT ON LGBTQ ISSU. "AS A QUEER PERSON WHO IS MARRIED, I FEEL A SENSE OF RELIEF RIGHT NOW. I KNOW MY FAY IS SAFE." ROBSON WAS THE SENATE CHAMBER FOR THE VOTE WH HER WIFE, BECKY, AND TODDLER SON. "IT WAS MORE EMOTNAL THAN I EXPECTED," SHE SAID. THE VOTE WAS PERSONAL FOR MANY SENATORS, TOO. WISNS SEN. TAMMY BALDW, A DEMOCRAT WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR AND WAS THE LEAD SPONSOR OF THE BILL, TEARFULLY HUGGED SCHUMER AND OTHERS AS THE FAL VOTE WAS LLED. BALDW, WHO HAS BEEN WORKG ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU FOR ALMOST FOUR S, TWEETED THANKS TO THE SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL UPL WHO SHE SAID MA THE MOMENT POSSIBLE. "BY LIVG AS YOUR TE SELV, YOU CHANGED THE HEARTS AND MDS OF PEOPLE AROUND YOU," SHE WROTE. RELATED: MORMON CHURCH SHOWS SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW, BELIEV ACT IS STILL UNBIBLIL SCHUMER SAID ON TUDAY THAT HE WAS WEARG THE TIE HE WORE AT HIS DGHTER'S WEDDG, "ONE OF THE HAPPIT MOMENTS OF MY LIFE." HE ALSO RELLED THE "HARROWG NVERSATN" HE HAD WH HIS DGHTER AND HER WIFE SEPTEMBER 2020 WHEN THEY HEARD THAT LIBERAL JTICE RUTH BAR GSBURG HAD PASSED AWAY. "COULD OUR RIGHT TO MARRY BE UNDONE?" THEY ASKED AT THE TIME. WH NSERVATIVE JTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT REPLACG GSBURG, THE URT HAS NOW OVERTURNED ROE V. WA AND THE FERAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTN, STOKG FEARS ABOUT OBERGEFELL AND OTHER RIGHTS PROTECTED BY THE URT. BUT SENTIMENT HAS SHIFTED ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WH MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF THE PUBLIC NOW SUPPORT. STILL, SCHUMER SAID WAS NOTABLE THAT THE SENATE WAS EVEN HAVG THE BATE AFTER YEARS OF REPUBLIN OPPOSN. "A AGO, WOULD HAVE STRAED ALL OF OUR IMAGATNS TO ENVISN BOTH SIS TALKG ABOUT PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF SAME-SEX MARRIED UPL," HE SAID. PASSAGE ME AFTER THE SENATE REJECTED THREE REPUBLIN AMENDMENTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF RELIG STUTNS AND OTHERS TO STILL OPPOSE SUCH MARRIAG. SUPPORTERS OF THE LEGISLATN ARGUED THOSE AMENDMENTS WERE UNNECSARY BEE THE BILL HAD ALREADY BEEN AMEND TO CLARIFY THAT DO NOT AFFECT RIGHTS OF PRIVATE DIVIDUALS OR BS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ENSHRED LAW. THE BILL WOULD ALSO MAKE CLEAR THAT A MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, AN EFFORT TO WARD OFF SOME FAR-RIGHT CRICISM THAT THE LEGISLATN ULD ENDORSE POLYGAMY. REPUBLIN SEN. THOM TILLIS OF NORTH CAROLA, WHO HAS BEEN LOBBYG HIS FELLOW GOP SENATORS TO SUPPORT THE LEGISLATN FOR MONTHS, POTED TO THE NUMBER OF RELIG GROUPS SUPPORTG THE BILL, CLUDG THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SATS. SOME OF THOSE GROUPS WERE PART OF NEGOTIATNS ON THE BIPARTISAN AMENDMENT. "THEY SEE THIS AS A STEP FORWARD FOR RELIG EEDOM," TILLIS SAYS. RELATED: SUPREME COURT LGS PROTECTG SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS ULD FACE CHALLENGE THE NEARLY 17-LN MEMBER, UTAH-BASED FAH SAID A STATEMENT THIS MONTH THAT CHURCH DOCTRE WOULD NTUE TO NSIR SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS TO BE AGAST GOD’S MANDMENTS. MOST REPUBLINS STILL OPPOSE THE LEGISLATN, SAYG IS UNNECSARY AND CG NCERNS ABOUT RELIG LIBERTY. AND SOME NSERVATIVE GROUPS STEPPED UP OPPOSN RECENT WEEKS, LOBBYG REPUBLIN SUPPORTERS TO SWCH THEIR VOT. "MARRIAGE IS THE EXCLIVE, LIFELONG, NJUGAL UNN BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, AND ANY PARTURE OM THAT SIGN HURTS THE DISPENSABLE GOAL OF HAVG EVERY CHILD RAISED A STABLE HOME BY THE MOM AND DAD WHO NCEIVED HIM," THE HERAGE FOUNDATN'S ROGER SEVERO, VICE PRINT OF DOMTIC POLICY, WROTE A RECENT BLOG POST ARGUG AGAST THE BILL. IN AN EFFORT TO W THE 10 REPUBLIN VOT NECSARY TO OVERE A FILIBTER THE 50-50 SENATE, DEMOCRATS LAYED NSIRATN UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERM ELECTNS, HOPG THAT WOULD RELIEVE POLIL PRSURE ON GOP SENATORS WHO MIGHT BE WAVERG. EVENTUAL SUPPORT OM 12 REPUBLINS GAVE DEMOCRATS THE VOT THEY NEED. ALONG WH TILLIS, MAE SEN. SAN COLLS AND OH SEN. ROB PORTMAN SUPPORTED THE BILL EARLY ON AND HAVE LOBBIED THEIR GOP LLEAGU TO SUPPORT . ALSO VOTG FOR THE LEGISLATN WERE REPUBLIN SENS. RICHARD BURR OF NORTH CAROLA, TODD YOUNG OF INDIANA, SHELLEY MOORE CAPO OF WT VIRGIA, MT ROMNEY OF UTAH, JONI ERNST OF IOWA, ROY BLUNT OF MISSOURI, CYNTHIA LUMMIS OF WYOMG AND LISA MURKOWSKI AND DAN SULLIVAN OF ALASKA. JT BEFORE PASSAGE, COLLS THANKED HER FELLOW REPUBLINS WHO SUPPORTED . "I KNOW HAS NOT BEEN EASY, BUT THEY HAVE DONE THE RIGHT THG," COLLS SAID. RELATED: LGBTQ STATE LAWMAKERS EXPRS NCERNS ABOUT FUTURE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE GEIA LUMMIS, ONE OF THE MORE NSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE, SPOKE AHEAD OF THE FAL VOTE ABOUT HER "FAIRLY BTAL SELF SOUL SEARCHG" BEFORE SUPPORTG THE BILL. SHE SAID THAT SHE ACCEPTS HER CHURCH'S BELIEFS THAT A MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, BUT NOTED THAT THE UNTRY WAS FOUND ON THE SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE. "WE DO WELL BY TAKG THIS STEP, NOT EMBRACG OR VALIDATG EACH OTHER’S VOUTLY HELD VIEWS, BUT BY THE SIMPLE ACT OF TOLERATG THEM," LUMMIS SAID. BALDW SAID EARLIER 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." "AND SLOWLY LAWS HAVE FOLLOWED," SHE SAID. "IT IS HISTORY." ___ ASSOCIATED PRS WRER LISA MASRO NTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT. BREAKING NEWS
• RUB ON PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE: 'I DON'T VOTE FOR FAKE PROBLEMS'

SENATORS PREVIEW TAILS OF RELIG RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO GAY MARRIAGE BILL

Congrsnal efforts to pass legislatn protectg gay marriage rights followed a solo Supreme Court opn by Jtice Clarence Thomas June the se Dobbs v. In a 267-157 vote, the Hoe passed legislatn repealg the Defense of Marriage Act and enshrg protectns for gay marriage to feral law. Associate Jtice Clarence Thomas went a step further by thorg a ncurrg opn that suggted the urt should revis other lgs cludg, gay marriage and accs to ntraceptn.

" CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RECONSIDER CONTRACEPTION, GAY MARRIAGE RULINGS Associate Jtice Clarence Thomas went a step further by thorg a ncurrg opn that suggted the urt should revis other lgs cludg, gay marriage and accs to ntraceptn.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Toronto, Canada - 25 June 2017: Gay Pri Para spectator holdg small gay rabow flag durg Toronto Pri Para 2017 (iStock)The legislatn now heads to the 50-50 Senate where fac an uncerta fate. Tammy Baldw and San Colls, the lears phg forward the Senate's gay marriage bill, on Thursday previewed tails of an amendment to addrs ncerns some Republins have about s effect on relig rights.

SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE

SENATE GAY MARRIAGE BILL NEGOTIATORS TO MEET ON HOW TO ADVANCE THE LEGISLATION BEFORE THE MIDTERMS Sen.

Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., is drivg to have the Senate approve a bill protectg gay marriage rights by the end of the month or perhaps sooner. C., said Thursday he thks a gay marriage bill the Senate is "all polics" by Democrats. " Congrsnal efforts to pass legislatn protectg gay marriage rights followed a solo Supreme Court opn by Jtice Clarence Thomas June the se of Dobbs v.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHY SUPREME COURT GOT WRONG

FILE -- June 25, 2015: John Becker, 30, of Silver Sprg, Md., wav a rabow flag support of gay marriage outsi the Supreme Court Washgton. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Mart) One do not have to be a homophobe or bigot to believe that the Supreme Court ma a tragic error today creatg out of th air an imagary right for gay marriage.

By enshrg gay marriage as a “civil right, ” the Court will be openg a floodgate of ligatn agast dividuals and bs that refe to honor same-sex marriag bee of relig nvictns. After all, if gay marriage is a civil right, then anyone who oppos is guilty of a civil rights vlatn.

We have already seen bakeri, florists, and weddg chapels sued and, some s, put out of bs bee of their refal to participate gay weddg ceremoni. Addnally, we n expect both civil and ernmental actns agast relig stutns that refe to honor gay marriage as a civil right. If gay marriage has now been elevated to a civil right on par wh terracial marriage, what ratnale would ernment have for not revokg the tax-exempt stat of any relig anizatn that do not regnize same-sex unns?

THE REAL IMPACT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON SOCIETY

Anytime you unterfe somethg, you cheapen the value of the real thg, and gay marriage is “unterfe marriage” (In fairns, heterosexuals have also been cheapeng the value of marriage for years through adultery and divorce.

Any variatn om that—premaral sex, adultery, polygamy, unbiblil divorce, or homosexualy—is a viatn om God’s origal plan for sex. WASHINGTON – Legalized gay marriage (search) may never e the transformatn of society that some have predicted, given that is likely to affect ls than one 100 U.

C., "the realy is the impact on marriage numerilly is that gay upl will still make up a ty actn of married upl.

FOX NEWS HOSTS CONFED ABOUT WHETHER TO CALL GAY MAN MR. OR MS.

”Analysts e the 2000 Cens (search) to rive an official unt of the number of possible gay unns the Uned Stat -- 595, 000 hoeholds head by same-sex partners. 4 ln acrdg to the 2000 cens – analysts are torn over the impact legalized gay marriage will have on the way Amerins view the stutn and the way they look at Gallagher, -thor of “The Case for Marriage, ” recently ttified  ont of the Senate that gay marriage activists are misreprentg the impact gay marriage will have. ”Gallagher claims that wh the legal onset of gay marriage, ernments will be the posn of forcg onto cizens a belief system that equat homosexualy wh heterosexualy — through public schools, taxpayer-fund programs like chari and non-profs, workplac and even fah-based anizatns (search) that receive public dollars.

“It will be a new legal and social norm and the law is gog to enforce this new social and legal norm on people, ” she far, Massachetts is the only state nsirg legal gay marriage. Its Supreme Judicial Court (search) led unnstutnal for the state to ny marriage licens to gay upl. The Legislature there is now batg whether to change s nstutn to ban such marriag but the licens are already beg distributed and a nstutnal amendment would not be ratified before the May date the urt set for allowg gay California and New York have fied their state laws and begun marryg gay upl.

Constutn that would fe marriage as between a man and a woman and protect stat om havg to regnize gay upl married stat that allow gay is a bate over whether the issue will land the lap of the U. Jonathan Rch, a wrer for the Natnal Journal (search) and thor of the upg “Gay Marriage: Why ’s Good for Gays, Good for Straights and Good for Ameri, ” said he don’t thk a nstutnal amendment is g, and believ that over the long-term, stat will expand marriage rights to homosexuals and the number of hold-outs will dwdle.

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, AMERI, GAY MARRIAGE IS JT THE BEGNG

“My personal view is gay marriage will have a signifintly posive effect on gay people, non-gay people and on marriage, ” he said.

“For gay upl, will brg the stabily and healths and happs that marriage uniquely provis.

SENATE PASS LANDMARK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL BY MARY CLARE JALONICK PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 29, 2022 UPDATED 7:31PM POLICS ASSOCIATED PRS SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD US SENATE PASS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL, NOW HEADS TO HOE FOR FAL VOTE ONCE THE HOE VOT ON THE BILL, WILL HEAD TO PRINT JOE BIN'S SK FOR HIS SIGNATURE. WASHINGTON - 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. THE BILL, WHICH WOULD ENSURE THAT SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAG ARE ENSHRED FERAL LAW, WAS APPROVED 61-36 ON TUDAY, CLUDG SUPPORT OM 12 REPUBLINS. SENATE MAJORY LEAR CHUCK SCHUMER SAID THE LEGISLATN WAS "A LONG TIME G" AND PART OF AMERI’S "DIFFICULT BUT EXORABLE MARCH TOWARDS GREATER EQUALY." DEMOCRATS ARE MOVG QUICKLY, WHILE THE PARTY STILL HOLDS THE MAJORY BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRS. THE LEGISLATN NOW MOV TO THE HOE FOR A FAL VOTE. PRINT JOE BIN PRAISED THE BIPARTISAN VOTE AND SAID HE WILL SIGN THE BILL "PROMPTLY AND PROUDLY" IF IS PASSED BY THE HOE. HE SAID WILL ENSURE THAT LGBTQ YOUTH "WILL GROW UP KNOWG THAT THEY, TOO, N LEAD FULL, HAPPY LIV AND BUILD FAI OF THEIR OWN." FILE-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MONSTRATORS AND THOSE OPPOSED, RALLY OUTSI THE SUPREME COURT WASHGTON, D.C. (KEN CENO/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG) THE BILL HAS GAED STEADY MOMENTUM SCE THE SUPREME COURT’S JUNE CISN THAT OVERTURNED THE FERAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTN, A LG THAT CLUD A NCURRG OPN OM JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS THAT SUGGTED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ULD ALSO E UNR THREAT. BIPARTISAN SENATE NEGOTIATNS GOT A KICK-START THIS SUMMER WHEN 47 REPUBLINS UNEXPECTEDLY VOTED FOR A HOE BILL AND GAVE SUPPORTERS NEW OPTIMISM. THE LEGISLATN WOULD NOT FORCE ANY STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY. BUT WOULD REQUIRE STAT TO REGNIZE ALL MARRIAG THAT WERE LEGAL WHERE THEY WERE PERFORMED, AND PROTECT CURRENT SAME-SEX UNNS, IF THE URT'S 2015 OBERGEFELL V. HODG CISN WERE TO BE OVERTURNED. IT'S A STUNNG BIPARTISAN ENDORSEMENT, AND EVINCE OF SOCIETAL CHANGE, AFTER YEARS OF BTER DIVISIVENS ON THE ISSUE. RELATED: SENATE ADVANC SAME-SEX, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE BILL WH 12 GOP VOT A NEW LAW PROTECTG SAME-SEX MARRIAG WOULD ALSO BE A MAJOR VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS AS THEY RELQUISH THEIR TWO YEARS OF NSOLIDATED POWER WASHGTON, AND A MASSIVE W FOR ADVOT WHO HAVE BEEN PHG FOR S FOR FERAL LEGISLATN. 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. "OUR MUNY REALLY NEEDS A W, WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT," SAID KELLEY ROBSON, THE G PRINT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, WHICH ADVOT ON LGBTQ ISSU. "AS A QUEER PERSON WHO IS MARRIED, I FEEL A SENSE OF RELIEF RIGHT NOW. I KNOW MY FAY IS SAFE." ROBSON WAS THE SENATE CHAMBER FOR THE VOTE WH HER WIFE, BECKY, AND TODDLER SON. "IT WAS MORE EMOTNAL THAN I EXPECTED," SHE SAID. THE VOTE WAS PERSONAL FOR MANY SENATORS, TOO. WISNS SEN. TAMMY BALDW, A DEMOCRAT WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR AND WAS THE LEAD SPONSOR OF THE BILL, TEARFULLY HUGGED SCHUMER AND OTHERS AS THE FAL VOTE WAS LLED. BALDW, WHO HAS BEEN WORKG ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU FOR ALMOST FOUR S, TWEETED THANKS TO THE SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL UPL WHO SHE SAID MA THE MOMENT POSSIBLE. "BY LIVG AS YOUR TE SELV, YOU CHANGED THE HEARTS AND MDS OF PEOPLE AROUND YOU," SHE WROTE. RELATED: MORMON CHURCH SHOWS SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW, BELIEV ACT IS STILL UNBIBLIL SCHUMER SAID ON TUDAY THAT HE WAS WEARG THE TIE HE WORE AT HIS DGHTER'S WEDDG, "ONE OF THE HAPPIT MOMENTS OF MY LIFE." HE ALSO RELLED THE "HARROWG NVERSATN" HE HAD WH HIS DGHTER AND HER WIFE SEPTEMBER 2020 WHEN THEY HEARD THAT LIBERAL JTICE RUTH BAR GSBURG HAD PASSED AWAY. "COULD OUR RIGHT TO MARRY BE UNDONE?" THEY ASKED AT THE TIME. WH NSERVATIVE JTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT REPLACG GSBURG, THE URT HAS NOW OVERTURNED ROE V. WA AND THE FERAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTN, STOKG FEARS ABOUT OBERGEFELL AND OTHER RIGHTS PROTECTED BY THE URT. BUT SENTIMENT HAS SHIFTED ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WH MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF THE PUBLIC NOW SUPPORT. STILL, SCHUMER SAID WAS NOTABLE THAT THE SENATE WAS EVEN HAVG THE BATE AFTER YEARS OF REPUBLIN OPPOSN. "A AGO, WOULD HAVE STRAED ALL OF OUR IMAGATNS TO ENVISN BOTH SIS TALKG ABOUT PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF SAME-SEX MARRIED UPL," HE SAID. PASSAGE ME AFTER THE SENATE REJECTED THREE REPUBLIN AMENDMENTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF RELIG STUTNS AND OTHERS TO STILL OPPOSE SUCH MARRIAG. SUPPORTERS OF THE LEGISLATN ARGUED THOSE AMENDMENTS WERE UNNECSARY BEE THE BILL HAD ALREADY BEEN AMEND TO CLARIFY THAT DO NOT AFFECT RIGHTS OF PRIVATE DIVIDUALS OR BS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ENSHRED LAW. THE BILL WOULD ALSO MAKE CLEAR THAT A MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, AN EFFORT TO WARD OFF SOME FAR-RIGHT CRICISM THAT THE LEGISLATN ULD ENDORSE POLYGAMY. REPUBLIN SEN. THOM TILLIS OF NORTH CAROLA, WHO HAS BEEN LOBBYG HIS FELLOW GOP SENATORS TO SUPPORT THE LEGISLATN FOR MONTHS, POTED TO THE NUMBER OF RELIG GROUPS SUPPORTG THE BILL, CLUDG THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SATS. SOME OF THOSE GROUPS WERE PART OF NEGOTIATNS ON THE BIPARTISAN AMENDMENT. "THEY SEE THIS AS A STEP FORWARD FOR RELIG EEDOM," TILLIS SAYS. RELATED: SUPREME COURT LGS PROTECTG SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS ULD FACE CHALLENGE THE NEARLY 17-LN MEMBER, UTAH-BASED FAH SAID A STATEMENT THIS MONTH THAT CHURCH DOCTRE WOULD NTUE TO NSIR SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS TO BE AGAST GOD’S MANDMENTS. MOST REPUBLINS STILL OPPOSE THE LEGISLATN, SAYG IS UNNECSARY AND CG NCERNS ABOUT RELIG LIBERTY. AND SOME NSERVATIVE GROUPS STEPPED UP OPPOSN RECENT WEEKS, LOBBYG REPUBLIN SUPPORTERS TO SWCH THEIR VOT. "MARRIAGE IS THE EXCLIVE, LIFELONG, NJUGAL UNN BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, AND ANY PARTURE OM THAT SIGN HURTS THE DISPENSABLE GOAL OF HAVG EVERY CHILD RAISED A STABLE HOME BY THE MOM AND DAD WHO NCEIVED HIM," THE HERAGE FOUNDATN'S ROGER SEVERO, VICE PRINT OF DOMTIC POLICY, WROTE A RECENT BLOG POST ARGUG AGAST THE BILL. IN AN EFFORT TO W THE 10 REPUBLIN VOT NECSARY TO OVERE A FILIBTER THE 50-50 SENATE, DEMOCRATS LAYED NSIRATN UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERM ELECTNS, HOPG THAT WOULD RELIEVE POLIL PRSURE ON GOP SENATORS WHO MIGHT BE WAVERG. EVENTUAL SUPPORT OM 12 REPUBLINS GAVE DEMOCRATS THE VOT THEY NEED. ALONG WH TILLIS, MAE SEN. SAN COLLS AND OH SEN. ROB PORTMAN SUPPORTED THE BILL EARLY ON AND HAVE LOBBIED THEIR GOP LLEAGU TO SUPPORT . ALSO VOTG FOR THE LEGISLATN WERE REPUBLIN SENS. RICHARD BURR OF NORTH CAROLA, TODD YOUNG OF INDIANA, SHELLEY MOORE CAPO OF WT VIRGIA, MT ROMNEY OF UTAH, JONI ERNST OF IOWA, ROY BLUNT OF MISSOURI, CYNTHIA LUMMIS OF WYOMG AND LISA MURKOWSKI AND DAN SULLIVAN OF ALASKA. JT BEFORE PASSAGE, COLLS THANKED HER FELLOW REPUBLINS WHO SUPPORTED . "I KNOW HAS NOT BEEN EASY, BUT THEY HAVE DONE THE RIGHT THG," COLLS SAID. RELATED: LGBTQ STATE LAWMAKERS EXPRS NCERNS ABOUT FUTURE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE GEIA LUMMIS, ONE OF THE MORE NSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE, SPOKE AHEAD OF THE FAL VOTE ABOUT HER "FAIRLY BTAL SELF SOUL SEARCHG" BEFORE SUPPORTG THE BILL. SHE SAID THAT SHE ACCEPTS HER CHURCH'S BELIEFS THAT A MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, BUT NOTED THAT THE UNTRY WAS FOUND ON THE SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE. "WE DO WELL BY TAKG THIS STEP, NOT EMBRACG OR VALIDATG EACH OTHER’S VOUTLY HELD VIEWS, BUT BY THE SIMPLE ACT OF TOLERATG THEM," LUMMIS SAID. BALDW SAID EARLIER 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." "AND SLOWLY LAWS HAVE FOLLOWED," SHE SAID. "IT IS HISTORY." ___ ASSOCIATED PRS WRER LISA MASRO NTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT. BREAKING NEWS

He pots to a of legalized gay unns Sndavia, where marriage rat have cled as the number of babi born to habatg has risen. ”Kurtz said he do not anticipate a future “patchwork” of state laws which some will be gay marriage-iendly while others will not regnize the unns.

”Rch balked at this ia, potg out that the natns of Sndavia do not regnize gay marriage, jt civil partnerships.

RUB ON PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE: 'I DON'T VOTE FOR FAKE PROBLEMS'

That is why the argument for gay marriage works —  will enurage marriage and hold up as a “gold standard for stable relatnships.