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11:21 PM UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Sahil Kapur</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">WASHINGTON — The Senate passed landmark legislatn Tuday that would dify feral protectn for marriag of same-sex and terracial upl, wh Democrats securg enough vot to overe opposn om most Republins.</p><p class="">The <a href=" target="_blank">Rpect for Marriage Act</a> was approved 61-36, wh support om all Democrats and 12 GOP vot, after a filibter was feated and three amendments offered by Republins who oppose the bill were rejected.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">The measure now <a href=" target="_blank">returns to the Hoe</a> for a fal vote before n go to Print Joe Bin, who said he looks forward to enactg .</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Pri Rally" height="3431" width="5147"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">A Capol Pri rally Washgton, D.C., on June 12, 2021.</span><span class="ptn__source">Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">“Wh today’s bipartisan Senate passage of the Rpect for Marriage Act, the Uned Stat is on the brk of reaffirmg a fundamental tth: love is love, and Amerins should have the right to marry the person they love,” Bin said a statement.</p><p class="">The Senate vote reflects the rapidly growg public support for legal same-sex marriage, which h a new high of 71% <a href=" target="_blank">Gallup trackg polls</a> June, up om jt 27% 1996, when Gallup first began pollg the issue.</p><p class="">"We're makg a really posive difference people's liv by creatg the certaty that their abily to protect their fai will be lastg," said the thor of the bill, Sen. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Baldw <a href=" target="_blank">revised</a> the measure to w some Republin vot by addg language to make clear that relig anizatns wouldn’t be required to perform same-sex marriag and that the feral ernment wouldn’t be required to protect polygamo marriag.</p><p class="">Senate Majory Lear Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the vote Tuday that he was wearg the same tie he wore to the weddg of his dghter and her wife. "It's personal to me," he told reporters.</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-twter" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-twter iamely-app iamely-embed" style="max-width: 550px;"><div class="iamely-rponsive" style="paddg-bottom: 100%;"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The 12 Republin proponents were an eclectic group, cludg retirg Sens. Rob Portman of Oh, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Richard Burr of North Carola; centrist al-makers like Sens. Mt Romney of Utah, San Colls of Mae, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carola; a learship member Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa; and nservative Sens. Todd Young of Indiana, Shelley Moore Capo of Wt Virgia, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Cynthia Lummis of Wyomg.</p><p class="">Lummis said backg the bill sparked blowback.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“My days sce the first cloture vote on the Rpect for Marriage Act as amend have volved a paful exercise acceptg admonishment and fairly btal self-soul-searchg — entirely avoidable, I might add, had I simply chosen to vote 'no,'” she said. “I, and many like me, have been vilified and spised by some who disagree wh our beliefs. They do not whhold bter vective. They e their own hateful speech to make sure that I, and others who believe as I do, that we are hated and spised by them.”</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">The legislatn me about after the nservative Supreme Court majory overturned the nstutnal right to an abortn, <a href=" target="_blank">sparkg fears</a> that the jtic may also revis liberal urt precents that enshre marriage rights for gay and terracial upl.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">The bill would require the feral ernment to regnize marriag that were valid a state when they were performed. It would also ensure full benefs for marriag "regardls of the uple’s sex, race, ethnicy, or natnal orig," but would not require stat to issue marriage licens ntrary to state law.</p><p class="">If the bill be law and the Supreme Court rcds the right to same-sex marriage, Amerins uld go to other stat and get married if 's not legal their stat.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“This will ensure that wherever you live, if you get married a state where ’s legal, they have to regnize wherever you are," a Democratic ai faiar wh the legislatn said. "And you have the same rights, benefs, rponsibili and eedoms wherever you are.”</p><p class="">Schumer held a lengthy procral vote open Monday as Democrats sought to cut a al wh GOP senators who threatened to drag out the procs unls they got vot on amendments. The Senate had teed up three of them: <a href=" target="_blank">one</a> by Mike Lee, R-Utah, at a 60-vote thrhold, and two by Jam Lankford, R-Okla., and Mar Rub, R-Fla., both of which need jt simple majori to pass. After they failed, the bill passed.</p><p class="">One Democrat, Sen. Raphael Warnock, missed the vote as he mpaigns Geia for next week’s Senate noff agast Republin Herschel Walker.</p><p class="endmark">Most Republins <a href=" target="_blank">opposed</a> the legislatn, although earlier procral vot all but ma clear that the bill had enough GOP support to pass. 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The Senate moved forward a bill that would dify gay marriage after receivg support om both Democrats and Republins.

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SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE

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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.

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

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.

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

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. Congrsnal efforts to pass legislatn protectg gay marriage rights followed a solo Supreme Court opn by Jtice Clarence Thomas June the se Dobbs v.

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

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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.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

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.

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.

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

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