Florida’s first openly gay state senator on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ passg: ‘the air was taken out of the room’ – The Hill

Contents:

• SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE
• RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
• FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE

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. Stt Applewhe/AP, FILESchumer and other Democrats have argued that a ncurrg opn by Jtice Clarence Thomas the June cisn, which he said the urt "should rensir" grantg a natnwi right to gay marriage, put the rights of LGBTQ Amerins Schumer, and other senators wh loved on who are a part of the LGBTQ muny, the matter is personal.

Baldw, the first openly gay member of the Senate, was a sponsor of the bill. The Senate took an historic step Tuday, passg legislatn that would enshre same-sex marriage rights to law and grant gay unns feral vote to pass the Rpect for Marriage Act was bipartisan – 61 to 36 – wh a signifint bloc of Republins jog every Democrat approvg the landmark bill. Tammy Baldw, the first openly gay person to serve the Senate, said s passage should allay the ncerns of same-sex and terracial upl worried their civil marriage uld be stripped away.

RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS

Senators approved the bill  rponse to ncerns the Supreme Court – wh a 6-3 nservative majory – would reverse s 2015 cisn regnizg the legimacy of gay marriage jt as overturned June the Roe v. "A number of Republins argued the bill would trample on the rights of church and other fah-based anizatns which would be punished if they refed to participate or regnize gay unns.

Mike Lee troduced one amendment to mimize threats to relig anizatns and said relig anizatns, schools and small bs would be harmed by the bill which requir stat that do not regnize the legimacy of gay marriage to accept same-sex upl who have legally wedd another state. Chuck SchumerFor Chuck Schumer, today’s vote the Senate to enshre gay marriage is more than jt a legislative victory, ’s a personal triumph as Senate majory lear’s youngt dghter, Allison, married her wife 2018 – a unn that once seemed ironclad but that me to this summer when the U. Other precents, cludg the urt’s 2015 cisn regnizg gay marriage, sudnly seemed at risk as well, Schumer said.

Hodg cisn that legalized gay marriage natnwi or force any state to allow same-sex upl to marry. Tammy Baldw, a Democrat who is the first openly gay senator and has been workg on gay rights issu for almost four s, 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.

FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’

Congrsnal efforts to pass legislatn protectg gay marriage rights followed a solo Supreme Court opn by Jtice Clarence Thomas June the se Dobbs v. Gays on Broadway: A ont-row seat to Queer history NYC theater. FILE PHOTO - A spectator wears a shirt wh the word 'LOVE' on while watchg the San Francis gay pri para two days after the U.

Senate vot on legislatn protectg gay marriage on Thursday were put off until after the Nov. Cens Bure 2019 timated that there were 543, 000 same-sex married uple hoeholds and 469, 000 hoeholds wh same-sex unmarried partners livg Majory Lear Chuck Schumer is "extremely disappoted" that there were not at least 10 out of 50 Republins willg to e forward to support the gay rights legislatn, spokman Jt Goodman said a statement.

Republin Senator Rob Portman told reporters, "We were very, very close" to movg toward passage of a ph to enact a feral law regnizg gay marriage arose after nservative U. In that cisn, Jtice Clarence Thomas, a nservative in, lled on the urt to also rensir natnwi rights to gay marriage and Rpect for Marriage Act won 47 GOP vot the Hoe, cludg om self-scribed "ultra MAGA" Rep. 5, 2022Follow our live verage of the Supreme Court heargs that ps ee speech agast gay rights.

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

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. After Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill was passed by the state Senate this week, the legislature’s first openly gay Senator, who had argued agast the bill, said he’s worried about the state’s LGBTQ+ youth.

Shevr Jon plead wh his lleagu to vote agast the state legislature’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Like other LGBTQ+ advot, Jon, who is the state Senate’s first openly gay member, argued that the bill, which prohibs classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty that is not “age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” for children, would likely force LGBTQ+ stunts further to the closet and stigmatize the experienc of people who are not heterosexual or cisgenr.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

The son of a pastor South Florida, the hman state senator prevly served three terms the state Hoe of Reprentativ, but did not publicly e out as gay until 2018, when he was 34. Geia this week troduced s own “Don’t Say Gay” bill, though s fate is far ls certa. You see bills like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill bee there’s jt not enough LGBTQ reprentatn stg at the table.