Hoe Pass Bill Protectg Gay Marriage—47 Republins Vote ‘Y’

Contents:

• HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE—47 REPUBLINS VOTE ‘Y’
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• THE ARE THE REPUBLIN SENATORS WHO WILL VOTE TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT

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

Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill protectg gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court's cisn to overturn Roe v. Wa imperiled siar precents that protected rights to same-sex relatns and bill, which passed the Democratic-ntrolled chamber by a vote of 267-157 wh support om 47 Republins, tablish feral protectns for gay marriage and prohibs anyone om nyg the validy of a marriage based on the race or sex of the will now go to the Senate for a vote, where fac unclear odds the evenly divid chamber. Wa a ncurrg opn, Jtice Clarence Thomas said the urt should also rensir s past lgs that guaranteed accs to ntraceptn and the 2015 right to gay marriage, bee they relied on the same legal arguments as Roe.

Republin Senator Ted Cz said on Saturday that the high urt was "clearly wrong" tablishg a feral right to gay marriage.

Democrats have argued that Congrs mt enshre the right to gay marriage to feral law se the urt reviss s past lgs. "The rights and eedoms that we have e to cherish will vanish to a cloud of radil iology and dub legal reasong, " Nadler said a statement on the Hoe bill, stat uld still rtrict gay marriage if the Supreme Court overturns s prr lg. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

”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.

The Rpect for Marriage Act, as is lled, won Senate approval last legislatn won the support of LGBT advot as well as a number of relig anizatns and enti cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, though many Amerin relig nservativ still oppose gay marriage as unter to biblil is narrowly wrten to act as a limed backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, known as Obergefell v. 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. Clarence Thomas: Court Should Rensir Gay Marriage, Birth Control Decisns Next After Overturng Roe (Forb).

THE ARE THE REPUBLIN SENATORS WHO WILL VOTE TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT

Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U. Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.