The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa
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- U.S. SENATE LIKELY TO LAY BILL ON GAY MARRIAGE UNTIL SEPTEMBER
- GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
- RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: WILL LEAD TO THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN GAY MARRIAGE?
- CZ TRODUC AMENDMENT TO SENATE GAY MARRIAGE BILL REGARDG CHILD MARRIAGE, POLYGAMY, CT RISKS
- RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
U.S. SENATE LIKELY TO LAY BILL ON GAY MARRIAGE UNTIL SEPTEMBER
The U.S. Senate is likely to lay a vote on protectg gay marriage until September, as Democrats ph forward wh a $430 billn climate change and dg pricg bill, which uld st them Republin support for the marriage measure, ais and advot said on Monday. * gay marriage bill yesterday *
Senate is likely to lay a vote on protectg gay marriage until September, as Democrats ph forward wh a $430 billn climate change and dg pricg bill, which uld st them Republin support for the marriage measure, ais and advot said on Monday.
GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
The U.S. 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 ntraceptn. * gay marriage bill yesterday *
Democratic Senator Tammy Baldw, the chamber's first openly gay member who has been workg to shepherd the Rpect for Marriage Act forward, now expects the bill to e to the floor after lawmakers return om a weeks-long Augt recs. The bill's backers plan to e the recs to nsir adjtg some of s language to lure more Republin the Senate spl 50-50, and Democrats charge thanks to Vice Print Kamala Harris's tie-breakg vote, the legislatn would need support om at least 10 Republins to marriage was once a hot-button issue Ameri's culture wars that Republins vehemently wh the public now solidly behd gay marriage and the ntrol of Congrs play the Nov.
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.
RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: WILL LEAD TO THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN GAY MARRIAGE?
A nservative law firm has speculated that if the Rpect for Marriage Act is signed to law by Print Joe Bin, uld actually lead to the Uned Stat Supreme Court overturng s earlier lg legalizg gay marriage natnwi. * gay marriage bill yesterday *
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. 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. 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. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate.
CZ TRODUC AMENDMENT TO SENATE GAY MARRIAGE BILL REGARDG CHILD MARRIAGE, POLYGAMY, CT RISKS
U.S. Senate vot on legislatn protectg gay marriage on Thursday were put off until after the Nov. 8 ngrsnal electns, as negotiators failed to w enough Republin support to ensure passage. * gay marriage bill yesterday *
”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. 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.
RPT GAY MARRIAGE BILL HS SNAG U.S. SENATE, NO VOTE UNTIL AFTER ELECTNS
"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. “When a person n be married the morng and thrown out of a rtrant for beg gay the afternoon, this is still wrong, ” Bin said.
In his ncurrg opn, Jtice Clarence Thomas suggted the urt rensir s posns on gay marriage and ntraceptiv. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay senator, for her work to negotiate the legislatn, wh Bin llg her “a real hero. ” After the bill passed the Hoe last week, the first ngrsman to voluntarily e out as gay, Barney Frank, touted her Rep.