California voters uld remove anti-gay marriage law – NBC Bay Area

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• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.
• CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• THE SENATE’S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE IS MONUMENTAL—AND IMPERFECTTHE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT SHOWS IMMENSE PROGRS AROUND MARRIAGE EQUALY. IT ALSO AGAST A DISTURBG BACKDROP OF VLENCE AGAST THE LGBTQ MUNY AND DANGERO POLIL ATTACKS OM FLUENTIAL RIGHT-WG LEARS.BY ERIC LUTZNOVEMBER 30, 2022TAMMY BALDW APPEARS AT A NEWS NFERENCE AHEAD OF A VOTE TO PASS THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT ON NOVEMBER 29. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT WAS ONLY A AGO THAT BARACK OBAMA FALLY PUBLICLY EXPRSED HIS SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HIS VICE PRINT, JOE BIN, HAD ALREADY GONE OFF SCRIPT AND SAID THAT SAME-SEX UPL SHOULD BE “ENTLED TO THE SAME EXACT RIGHTS, ALL THE CIVIL RIGHTS, ALL THE CIVIL LIBERTI” THAT HETEROSEXUAL UPL ENJOYED. AT THE TIME, BIN’S REMARKS WERE ST AS A “GAFFE” SOME RNERS. IT WAS DURG OBAMA’S REELECTN MPAIGN AGAST MT ROMNEY, WHO AS THE PRUMPTIVE REPUBLIN NOMEE BACK THEN HAD SAID FIVELY, “I BELIEVE MARRIAGE IS A RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN.” BUT THE ISSUE DIDN’T DRAG DOWN OBAMA AND BIN THAT YEAR’S ELECTN, AS SOME AIS HAD FEARED, AND THE SUPREME COURT WOULD MAKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGAL ACROSS THE UNTRY THREE YEARS LATER WH OBERGEFELL V. HODG. THERE’S BEEN A MAJOR SHIFT AMERIN POLICS AROUND MARRIAGE EQUALY THE YEARS SCE, AS THE SENATE VOTE ON THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT UNRSRED TUDAY. LED BY DEMOCRAT TAMMY BALDW AND REPUBLIN SAN COLLS, A BIPARTISAN MAJORY THE UPPER CHAMBER PASSED A BILL PROTECTG SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAG AT THE FERAL LEVEL, AMID NCERNS THAT THE SUPREME COURT’S 6-3 NSERVATIVE MAJORY ULD OVERTURN THOSE PRECENTS THE WAY OVERTURNED ROE THIS SUMMER. EVERY PRENT DEMOCRAT AND 12 REPUBLINS, CLUDG ROMNEY, VOTED FOR THE LANDMARK LEGISLATN, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO PASS THE HOE AND BE SIGNED TO LAW. “FOR LNS OF AMERINS, THIS LEGISLATN WILL SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS AND PROTECTNS TO WHICH LGBTQI+ AND TERRACIAL UPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ARE ENTLED,” BIN SAID A STATEMENT TUDAY, PRAISG THE LAWMAKERS THE SENATE WHO BROUGHT WHAT HAD ORIGALLY BEEN SEEN AS SOMETHG OF A MSAGG BILL OVER THE FISH LE. “I LOOK FORWARD TO WELG THEM AT THE WHE HOE AFTER THE HOE PASS THIS LEGISLATN AND SENDS TO MY SK, WHERE I WILL PROMPTLY AND PROUDLY SIGN TO LAW,” BIN NTUED. THE BILL IS FAR OM PERFECT, AND MOST REPUBLIN SENATORS VOTED AGAST — CLUDG MAR RUB, WHO BALDW PERSONALLY LOBBIED AN ELEVATOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER HE TOLD A CNN REPORTER THAT THE BILL WAS A “STUPID WASTE OF TIME” OVER THE SUMMER. THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT, WHICH REPEALS THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, WILL ENSURE THAT SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAG ARE REGNIZED UNR FERAL LAW. BUT DO HAVE SOME NOTABLE SHORTGS. IN ADDN TO RELIG EXEMPTNS, WHICH WERE NECSARY TO GET ENOUGH REPUBLINS ON BOARD, THE LEGISLATN WOULD NOT REQUIRE STAT TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IF OBERGEFELL WERE ED STCK DOWN; WOULD ONLY FORCE STAT AND THE FERAL ERNMENT TO REGNIZE MARRIAG NDUCTED PLAC WHERE THEY ARE LEGAL. AND, OF URSE, THE LEGISLATN AGAST A DISTURBG BACKDROP OF VLENCE AGAST THE LGBTQ MUNY; DANGERO POLIL ATTACKS OM FLUENTIAL RIGHT-WG LEARS LIKE RON DESANTIS; AND THREATS TO GAY MARRIAGE OM THE HIGH URT THAT ONLY SEVEN YEARS AGO LEGALIZED NATNALLY. STILL, THE LEGISLATIVE VICTORY TUDAY REPRENTED REMARKABLE PROGRS: “MILLNS OF SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL UPL MA THIS MOMENT POSSIBLE BY LIVG OPENLY AS THEIR THENTIC SELV, CHANGG THE HEARTS AND MDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THEM,” BALDW, WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN TO BE ELECTED TO THE SENATE 2012, SAID A STATEMENT TUDAY. “THIS LEGISLATN WILL PROTECT THE HARD-FOUGHT PROGRS WE’VE MA ON MARRIAGE EQUALY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT BEG THE LAW OF THE LAND.” THAT PROGRS HAS BEEN UNR THREAT SCE THE SUMMER, WHEN SUPREME COURT NSERVATIV STCK DOWN HALF A CENTURY OF PRECENT AND ELIMATED THE FERAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTN THAT HAD BEEN TABLISHED UNR ROE V. WA. SAMUEL ALO SUGGTED, HIS MAJORY OPN, THAT THE DOBBS CISN WOULD NOT IMPACT OTHER PRIVACY RIGHTS, LIKE MARRIAGE EQUALY OR ACCS TO NTRACEPTN. BUT THAT ASSURANCE WAS HARDLY NVCG, PECIALLY AS CLARENCE THOMAS, HIS NCURRG OPN, DIRECTLY LLED FOR OBERGEFELL, LAWRENCE, AND GRISWOLD TO BE “RENSIRED.” GRISWOLD PROTECTS AMERINS’ RIGHTS TO BUY AND E NTRACEPTN. LAWRENCE STCK DOWN A TEXAS SODOMY LAW, MAKG SAME-SEX ACTIVY LEGAL; OBERGEFELL LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THOMAS, WHO IS AN TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, DID NOT MAKE MENTN OF LOVG V. VIRGIA, THE LANDMARK SE THAT LEGALIZED MARRIAG LIKE HIS. DEMOCRATS AND A NUMBER OF REPUBLINS  THE HOE RPOND BY QUICKLY PASSG A BILL TO DIFY SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS TO LAW, BUT A SIAR PH HAD IALLY BEEN REGARD AS A TOUGHER PROJECT THE EVENLY-DIVID SENATE. SOME DEMOCRATS HAD OBJECTED WHEN MAJORY LEAR CHUCK SCHUMER LAYED A PLANNED SEPTEMBER VOTE, SISTG THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO GET REPUBLINS ON RERD BEFORE THE ELECTN. “WE NEED TO VOTE ON EQUAL MARRIAGE TODAY,” ELIZABETH WARREN SAID AT THE TIME. “IF THERE ARE REPUBLINS WHO DON’T WANT TO VOTE ON THAT BEFORE THE ELECTN, I ASSUME IS BEE THEY ARE ON THE WRONG SI OF HISTORY.” BUT THE LAY APPARENTLY GAVE BALDW AND COLLS EXTRA TIME TO SECURE ENOUGH REPUBLIN SUPPORT TO ACTUALLY PASS . “I THK THERE WAS A SHORT PERD OF TIME WHERE THERE WAS A BELIEF THAT THIS WAS BEG PHED FOR POLIL REASONS,” BALDW TOLD THE WASHGTON POST. “MY REPUBLIN LLEAGU WOULD SAY TO ME, ‘NOBODY THKS YOU’RE PHG THIS FOR POLIL REASONS. THEY THK OTHERS ARE, LIKE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. BUT NOBODY IS QUTNG YOUR MOTIV.’ I THK THAT’S HELPFUL. I MEAN, I REALLY AM EARNT ABOUT THIS.” IN THE END, PASSED 61-36, WH SUPPORT OM SOME REPUBLINS WHO HAD PREVLY OPPOSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, LIKE WYOMG SENATOR CYNTHIA LUMMIS. “THE ARE TURBULENT TIM FOR OUR NATN,” LUMMIS SAID TUDAY. “FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATN TODAY AND S SURVIVAL, WE DO WELL BY TAKG THIS STEP.” THE LIKELY PASSAGE OF THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT WON’T EXTGUISH THREATS TO THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT THE BIPARTISAN VOTE TUDAY NOT ONLY SPEAKS TO PROGRS THAT’S BEEN MA RECENT YEARS —  WILL PROVI AN IMPORTANT, IF IMPERFECT, GUARDRAIL FOR AMERINS’ RIGHTS. “IN MANY WAYS, THE STORY OF AMERI HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT, BUT EXORABLE MARCH TOWARD GREATER EQUALY,” SCHUMER, WHOSE DGHTER IS A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAID ON THE SENATE FLOOR. “SOMETIM, WE’VE TAKEN STEPS FORWARD. OTHER TIM, UNFORTUNATELY, WE’VE TAKEN DISTURBG STEPS BACKWARD. BUT TODAY, AFTER MONTHS OF HARD WORK, AFTER MANY ROUNDS OF BIPARTISAN TALKS, AND AFTER MANY DOUBTS THAT WE ULD EVEN REACH THIS POT, WE ARE TAKG THE MOMENTO STEP FORWARD FOR GREATER JTICE FOR LGBTQ AMERINS.” MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEERIC LUTZ

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

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. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor.

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

The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 unnstutnal. The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock. The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned lg cleared the way for same-sex marriag the state to rume and Proposn 8 has remaed on the books but unenforced.

Supreme Court uld overturn the 2015 landmark lg that legalized gay marriag — jt as Jtice Clarence Thomas has voters n remove om the state’s nstutn. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn. Hodg, which legalized gay marriage, uld be overturned followg the Supreme Court's cisn to overturn Roe v. Y., a -chair of the Hoe LGBTQ+ Equaly Cc who intifi as gay, said that the challenge to LGBTQ equaly currently is "unprecented" light of the Dobbs cisn.

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

on the gay liftyle. benefi ts of gay or lbian domtic partnerships.

) If the gay marriage lg is not overturned,.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS GAY MARRIAGE BAN

there is no difference between gay marriage and tradnal.

schools teachg our kids that gay marriage is okay. rights of gay domtic partnerships. wh gays livg the liftyle they choose.

However, while gays have the right to their private liv, they do. If gay activists want to legalize gay marriage,. WOULD DENY LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES that same.

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

GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES AND ANOTHER SET FOR. MARRIAGE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES, PEOPLE. everyone California—straight, gay, or lbian—serv.

↑ Huffgton Post, "Supreme Court Rul On Prop 8, Lets Gay Marriage Rume In California, " June 26, 2013.

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

News, "McCa Supports Efforts to Ban Gay Marriage, " June 27, 2008. ↑ The Jewish Daily Forward, "Orthodox Jo Fight Agast Gay Nuptials, " Augt 28, 2008. “In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ” Chief Jtice Gee wrote, “the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl.

California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. 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. And, of urse, the legislatn agast a disturbg backdrop of vlence agast the LGBTQ muny; dangero polil attacks om fluential right-wg lears like Ron DeSantis; and threats to gay marriage om the high urt that only seven years ago legalized natnally.

THE SENATE’S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE IS MONUMENTAL—AND IMPERFECTTHE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT SHOWS IMMENSE PROGRS AROUND MARRIAGE EQUALY. IT ALSO AGAST A DISTURBG BACKDROP OF VLENCE AGAST THE LGBTQ MUNY AND DANGERO POLIL ATTACKS OM FLUENTIAL RIGHT-WG LEARS.BY ERIC LUTZNOVEMBER 30, 2022TAMMY BALDW APPEARS AT A NEWS NFERENCE AHEAD OF A VOTE TO PASS THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT ON NOVEMBER 29. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT WAS ONLY A AGO THAT BARACK OBAMA FALLY PUBLICLY EXPRSED HIS SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HIS VICE PRINT, JOE BIN, HAD ALREADY GONE OFF SCRIPT AND SAID THAT SAME-SEX UPL SHOULD BE “ENTLED TO THE SAME EXACT RIGHTS, ALL THE CIVIL RIGHTS, ALL THE CIVIL LIBERTI” THAT HETEROSEXUAL UPL ENJOYED. AT THE TIME, BIN’S REMARKS WERE ST AS A “GAFFE” SOME RNERS. IT WAS DURG OBAMA’S REELECTN MPAIGN AGAST MT ROMNEY, WHO AS THE PRUMPTIVE REPUBLIN NOMEE BACK THEN HAD SAID FIVELY, “I BELIEVE MARRIAGE IS A RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN.” BUT THE ISSUE DIDN’T DRAG DOWN OBAMA AND BIN THAT YEAR’S ELECTN, AS SOME AIS HAD FEARED, AND THE SUPREME COURT WOULD MAKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGAL ACROSS THE UNTRY THREE YEARS LATER WH OBERGEFELL V. HODG. THERE’S BEEN A MAJOR SHIFT AMERIN POLICS AROUND MARRIAGE EQUALY THE YEARS SCE, AS THE SENATE VOTE ON THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT UNRSRED TUDAY. LED BY DEMOCRAT TAMMY BALDW AND REPUBLIN SAN COLLS, A BIPARTISAN MAJORY THE UPPER CHAMBER PASSED A BILL PROTECTG SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAG AT THE FERAL LEVEL, AMID NCERNS THAT THE SUPREME COURT’S 6-3 NSERVATIVE MAJORY ULD OVERTURN THOSE PRECENTS THE WAY OVERTURNED ROE THIS SUMMER. EVERY PRENT DEMOCRAT AND 12 REPUBLINS, CLUDG ROMNEY, VOTED FOR THE LANDMARK LEGISLATN, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO PASS THE HOE AND BE SIGNED TO LAW. “FOR LNS OF AMERINS, THIS LEGISLATN WILL SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS AND PROTECTNS TO WHICH LGBTQI+ AND TERRACIAL UPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ARE ENTLED,” BIN SAID A STATEMENT TUDAY, PRAISG THE LAWMAKERS THE SENATE WHO BROUGHT WHAT HAD ORIGALLY BEEN SEEN AS SOMETHG OF A MSAGG BILL OVER THE FISH LE. “I LOOK FORWARD TO WELG THEM AT THE WHE HOE AFTER THE HOE PASS THIS LEGISLATN AND SENDS TO MY SK, WHERE I WILL PROMPTLY AND PROUDLY SIGN TO LAW,” BIN NTUED. THE BILL IS FAR OM PERFECT, AND MOST REPUBLIN SENATORS VOTED AGAST — CLUDG MAR RUB, WHO BALDW PERSONALLY LOBBIED AN ELEVATOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER HE TOLD A CNN REPORTER THAT THE BILL WAS A “STUPID WASTE OF TIME” OVER THE SUMMER. THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT, WHICH REPEALS THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, WILL ENSURE THAT SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAG ARE REGNIZED UNR FERAL LAW. BUT DO HAVE SOME NOTABLE SHORTGS. IN ADDN TO RELIG EXEMPTNS, WHICH WERE NECSARY TO GET ENOUGH REPUBLINS ON BOARD, THE LEGISLATN WOULD NOT REQUIRE STAT TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IF OBERGEFELL WERE ED STCK DOWN; WOULD ONLY FORCE STAT AND THE FERAL ERNMENT TO REGNIZE MARRIAG NDUCTED PLAC WHERE THEY ARE LEGAL. AND, OF URSE, THE LEGISLATN AGAST A DISTURBG BACKDROP OF VLENCE AGAST THE LGBTQ MUNY; DANGERO POLIL ATTACKS OM FLUENTIAL RIGHT-WG LEARS LIKE RON DESANTIS; AND THREATS TO GAY MARRIAGE OM THE HIGH URT THAT ONLY SEVEN YEARS AGO LEGALIZED NATNALLY. STILL, THE LEGISLATIVE VICTORY TUDAY REPRENTED REMARKABLE PROGRS: “MILLNS OF SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL UPL MA THIS MOMENT POSSIBLE BY LIVG OPENLY AS THEIR THENTIC SELV, CHANGG THE HEARTS AND MDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THEM,” BALDW, WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AMERIN TO BE ELECTED TO THE SENATE 2012, SAID A STATEMENT TUDAY. “THIS LEGISLATN WILL PROTECT THE HARD-FOUGHT PROGRS WE’VE MA ON MARRIAGE EQUALY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT BEG THE LAW OF THE LAND.” THAT PROGRS HAS BEEN UNR THREAT SCE THE SUMMER, WHEN SUPREME COURT NSERVATIV STCK DOWN HALF A CENTURY OF PRECENT AND ELIMATED THE FERAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTN THAT HAD BEEN TABLISHED UNR ROE V. WA. SAMUEL ALO SUGGTED, HIS MAJORY OPN, THAT THE DOBBS CISN WOULD NOT IMPACT OTHER PRIVACY RIGHTS, LIKE MARRIAGE EQUALY OR ACCS TO NTRACEPTN. BUT THAT ASSURANCE WAS HARDLY NVCG, PECIALLY AS CLARENCE THOMAS, HIS NCURRG OPN, DIRECTLY LLED FOR OBERGEFELL, LAWRENCE, AND GRISWOLD TO BE “RENSIRED.” GRISWOLD PROTECTS AMERINS’ RIGHTS TO BUY AND E NTRACEPTN. LAWRENCE STCK DOWN A TEXAS SODOMY LAW, MAKG SAME-SEX ACTIVY LEGAL; OBERGEFELL LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THOMAS, WHO IS AN TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, DID NOT MAKE MENTN OF LOVG V. VIRGIA, THE LANDMARK SE THAT LEGALIZED MARRIAG LIKE HIS. DEMOCRATS AND A NUMBER OF REPUBLINS  THE HOE RPOND BY QUICKLY PASSG A BILL TO DIFY SAME-SEX AND TERRACIAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS TO LAW, BUT A SIAR PH HAD IALLY BEEN REGARD AS A TOUGHER PROJECT THE EVENLY-DIVID SENATE. SOME DEMOCRATS HAD OBJECTED WHEN MAJORY LEAR CHUCK SCHUMER LAYED A PLANNED SEPTEMBER VOTE, SISTG THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO GET REPUBLINS ON RERD BEFORE THE ELECTN. “WE NEED TO VOTE ON EQUAL MARRIAGE TODAY,” ELIZABETH WARREN SAID AT THE TIME. “IF THERE ARE REPUBLINS WHO DON’T WANT TO VOTE ON THAT BEFORE THE ELECTN, I ASSUME IS BEE THEY ARE ON THE WRONG SI OF HISTORY.” BUT THE LAY APPARENTLY GAVE BALDW AND COLLS EXTRA TIME TO SECURE ENOUGH REPUBLIN SUPPORT TO ACTUALLY PASS . “I THK THERE WAS A SHORT PERD OF TIME WHERE THERE WAS A BELIEF THAT THIS WAS BEG PHED FOR POLIL REASONS,” BALDW TOLD THE WASHGTON POST. “MY REPUBLIN LLEAGU WOULD SAY TO ME, ‘NOBODY THKS YOU’RE PHG THIS FOR POLIL REASONS. THEY THK OTHERS ARE, LIKE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. BUT NOBODY IS QUTNG YOUR MOTIV.’ I THK THAT’S HELPFUL. I MEAN, I REALLY AM EARNT ABOUT THIS.” IN THE END, PASSED 61-36, WH SUPPORT OM SOME REPUBLINS WHO HAD PREVLY OPPOSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, LIKE WYOMG SENATOR CYNTHIA LUMMIS. “THE ARE TURBULENT TIM FOR OUR NATN,” LUMMIS SAID TUDAY. “FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATN TODAY AND S SURVIVAL, WE DO WELL BY TAKG THIS STEP.” THE LIKELY PASSAGE OF THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT WON’T EXTGUISH THREATS TO THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT THE BIPARTISAN VOTE TUDAY NOT ONLY SPEAKS TO PROGRS THAT’S BEEN MA RECENT YEARS —  WILL PROVI AN IMPORTANT, IF IMPERFECT, GUARDRAIL FOR AMERINS’ RIGHTS. “IN MANY WAYS, THE STORY OF AMERI HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT, BUT EXORABLE MARCH TOWARD GREATER EQUALY,” SCHUMER, WHOSE DGHTER IS A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAID ON THE SENATE FLOOR. “SOMETIM, WE’VE TAKEN STEPS FORWARD. OTHER TIM, UNFORTUNATELY, WE’VE TAKEN DISTURBG STEPS BACKWARD. BUT TODAY, AFTER MONTHS OF HARD WORK, AFTER MANY ROUNDS OF BIPARTISAN TALKS, AND AFTER MANY DOUBTS THAT WE ULD EVEN REACH THIS POT, WE ARE TAKG THE MOMENTO STEP FORWARD FOR GREATER JTICE FOR LGBTQ AMERINS.” MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEERIC LUTZ

Still, the legislative victory Tuday reprented remarkable progrs: “Millns of same-sex and terracial upl ma this moment possible by livg openly as their thentic selv, changg the hearts and mds of people around them, ” Baldw, who was the first openly gay Amerin to be elected to the Senate 2012, said a statement Tuday.