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Let's start with positive: Republicans and democrats are gathering together to protect the same -sex Marriage from the Supreme Court.
Law on respect for marriage Codifies marriages and arises among the Democrats amid concern that the same conservative majority in the Supreme Court, which deprived the right to abortion, will aimed at same -sex marriages in the future.
The version that overcame Filibster in the Senate went to the Senate on TuesdayThe field of a dozen senators -republicans from all over the country voted with the Democrats until thanks to the day of thanks to limit the debate and move on to the final vote.
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Then he goes to the house for approval before President Joe Biden can sign him into the law.
But there is a sufficient amount of small font.
Firstly, the bill does not require that all states allow same-sex marriages, Despite the fact that this is the current reality in the framework of the Obergefell v solution. Hodges 2015. Rather, if the Supreme Court canceled Obergefell and previous state prohibitions on same -sex marriages, returned by force, the marriage law would demand that the States and the federal government respect marriages held in places where it is legal.
There are religious exceptions. Supporters of the Republicans emphasized the elements in this version in the Senate, which protect non -profit and religious organizations from the need to provide support to same -sex marriages.
“I will maintain a substitute for the amendment, because it guarantees that our religious freedoms will be supported and protected, one of the layers of our democracy,” said Senator Virginia Shelley Moore Kapito In the statement After helping Filibuster helped.
It took months of backstage efforts to attract more than 10 Republicans on board.
This is all academic right now. The bill is adopted only if the now decisively conservative Supreme Court, which admired the precedent, was to return to the Obergefell v decision. Hodges, which created the national right to marriage for same -sex couples.
Two of the judges who voted for this decision were replaced by the conservatives appointed by the Republicans, which means that if the case was considered today, there is a real probability that this will be decided differently.
While Judge Samuel Alito seemed to want to cancel the precedent of the right to abortion, which was reduced by the Supreme Court at the beginning of this year, Arian de Vog from CNN wrote about how the decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women Health Organization can affect such issues as marriage. Read its storyField
Despite the small font, it is almost incredible that less than The generation back of the Republicans and Democrats, along with the President-Democrat in the 90s, worked together to protect the “Institute of Marriage” from same-sex unions.
Today, Republicans and Democrats, along with the president-democrat, working together to protect same-sex marriages from the State Institute.
During this time, public support for same -sex marriages increased from about a quarter of public during the year, when the law on the protection of marriage was adopted 71% in the Gallup poll this yearField
The problem played a role in several elections in the United States, including, perhaps, the one that has just happened.
Here is a brief story of the equality of marriage, playing a role in previous Elections:
In 1996, the republican majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate felt a political discovery after the then President Bill Clinton did not allow gays to openly serve in the army.
They also tried to get ahead of the court decision in Hawaii, which could legalize same -sex marriages in this state. Fearing that each state may have to recognize same -sex unions, the Republicans pushed the law on the protection of marriage, known as Doma.
He declared a marriage between one man and one woman and allowed states to abandon the recognition of marriages. It is also He detained federal benefits from married same -sex couples. In 2013, part of Doma was It is considered unconstitutionalField
Domo had a wide approval. Democrats love then. Biden He voted for the billThe field is the current leader of the majority in the Senate Chuck Schumer and many other democrats whose names you learn were among 342, who voted for the bill in the ward.
The current speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi was among 67 members who voted “no” along with the then Rep. Steve Ganderson, who at that time was the only home Republican.
In 2004, The placement of amendments against gay marks on ballots in key states, such as Ohio, was a smart policy. This helped George Busham win a re -election in the White House and win the area of the Republican Party in the US Senate.
Bush approved a constitutional amendment to ban same -sex marriagesThe field candidate from the Democrats, John Kerry, also opposed same -sex marriages at that time.
In 2008, Even despite the fact that in his party they began to publicly support the equality of marriage, Obama continued his opposition.
He recently said and wrote that he always personally supports same -sex marriages Rights. His assistant to the campaign David Axelrod wrote that Obama made a calculated decision to counteract same -sex marriages.
“He reluctantly accepted the lawyer of more pragmatic people, such as me, and changed his position in support of civilian unions, and not the marriage that he will appoint a“ sacred union ”,” it will be that he will endure the “sacred union”. Axelrod wrote In memoirs.
In 2012, After the leader of the then President Biden Obama, he officially developed on this issue and said that now he supported the equality of marriage. It was big instantaneous
A few years later, in 2015, The Supreme Court made a decision in favor of same -sex marriages throughout the countryField
“I'm fine with this”, Trump said In 2016, during an interview with 60 minutes.
He continued boast As a champion for gay rights, although many LGBTK activists will not agree.
Politicians of the 90s developed largely with the country.
But this summer, One of the relics of the Supreme Court from the 90s, judge Clarence Thomas, questioned the decision to marry 2015 He opposed. As a result, Republicans and Democrats gathered together to cancel what they did in 1996, and try to guarantee marriage as the right to all Americans.
