CHICAGO (AP) — Legislatn that ensur same-sex and terracial marriag are regnized as legal unns appears head for fal approval and Print Joe Bin's signature, a bipartisan agreement that reflects a wir acceptance of gay rights both Congrs and the untry.
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- HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY AND TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, SENDS TO BIN FOR SIGNATURE
- CONGRS VOT TO DIFY GAY, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, OH'S PORTMAN -SPONSORG SENATE BILL
- HOE PASS BILL TO DIFY GAY MARRIAGE OVER REPUBLIN OBJECTNS LED BY OH’S JIM JORDAN
- EXPLAINER: CONGRS IS ACTG ON GAY, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY AND TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, SENDS TO BIN FOR SIGNATURE
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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. 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. In 1996, then-Senator Joe Bin backed the Defense of Marriage Act banng feral regnn of relatnships between gays and lbians.
San Colls (R-Mae), who helped lead the charge to end the ary’s ban on gay and lbian members 2010.
CONGRS VOT TO DIFY GAY, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, OH'S PORTMAN -SPONSORG SENATE BILL
Wa, wrten by Jtice Samuel Alo, acced dissentg jtic of tryg to “stoke unfound fear that our cisn will imperil” lgs that legalized the e of ntraceptiv, as well as gay and terracial marriage. Gay marriage don’t offend me nearly as much as offendg feralism do through this legislatn.
HOE PASS BILL TO DIFY GAY MARRIAGE OVER REPUBLIN OBJECTNS LED BY OH’S JIM JORDAN
), who attend his son’s gay weddg July jt days after votg agast the earlier versn of the bill, said he would vote “no” aga over relig liberti ncerns, spe releasg a statement that he was “very happy to wele” his “new son--law” to his own fay.
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. Tammy Baldw of Wisns, one of the bill’s sponsors and the first openly gay senator, said the langage of the bill “leav tact relig liberti supported our Constutn and feral law.
Portman changed his stance on same-sex marriage after his son me out as gay, and a spokwoman said he plans to -sponsor the Senate's bill. Roe was ground the 14th Amendment's guarantee of due procs, which also serv as the foundatn of the landmark gay marriage lg Obergefell v.
EXPLAINER: CONGRS IS ACTG ON GAY, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, lled the bill to dify gay and terracial marriag unnecsary and acced Democrats of g to distract om problems such as flatn ahead of the electn.
Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". 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.
In a robt but lopsid bate, Democrats argued tensely favor of enshrg marriage equaly feral law, while Republins steered clear of openly rejectg gay marriage. Y., who said he was among the openly gay members of the Hoe. Mary Gay Snlon, D-Pa., a floor speech settg Tuday's procs motn.
Hodg, which tablished the rights of same-sex upl to marry natnwi, a landmark se for gay rights. Wh a robt but lopsid bate, Democrats argued tensely favor of enshrg marriage equaly feral law, while Republins steered clear of openly rejectg gay marriage.