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.
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- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- WHE HOE NOMAT GAY SAN DIEGO MAYOR FOR BOARD OF TSTE ROLE
- NIGERIAN POLICE ARRT MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AT GAY WEDDG
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) people face signifint levels of discrimatn hog, which n take a variety of forms. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. 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.
WHE HOE NOMAT GAY SAN DIEGO MAYOR FOR BOARD OF TSTE ROLE
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.
NIGERIAN POLICE ARRT MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AT GAY WEDDG
It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac. People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor. Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted.
Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm. ”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Chamber of Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg.