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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 19, 2022, 10:15:14 pm
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House passes bill protecting marriage equality, with 47 GOP members voting ‘yes’
by Mychael Schnell - 07/19/22 5:58 PM ET
The House passed a bill on Tuesday to protect marriage equality, a direct response to an opinion from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last month that called for reversing multiple decisions that enshrined LGBTQ rights.
The legislation, titled the Respect for Marriage Act, passed in a 267-157 vote, with 47 Republicans joining all Democrats in supporting the measure. Seven Republicans did not vote.
The measure, which faces a shaky future in the 50-50 Senate, calls for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a bill former President Clinton signed into law in 1996 that recognized marriage as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.” The measure referred to the word spouse as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”
DOMA had passed through both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support.
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the Respect for Marriage Act would also require that individuals are considered married if they were wed in a state where marriage was legal. The provision, according to the House Judiciary Committee, ensures that same-sex and interracial couples are treated equally to other married individuals on the federal level.
Additionally, the bill gives the attorney general authority to launch civil action against any individuals who violate it and allows any individuals to take civil action if their rights as laid out in the bill are breached.
House passage of the bill comes less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that protected access to abortion as a constitutional right.
Thomas penned a concurring opinion to the decision that called on the court to reconsider all substantive due process precedents established by the bench, including Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 case that barred states from outlawing consensual gay sex, and Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that made same-sex marriage a constitutional right.
In the majority opinion, however, Justice Samuel Alito said that by striking down Roe, the bench was not calling for reversing other rulings.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3566470-house-passes-bill-protecting-marriage-equality-with-47-gop-members-voting-yes/
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47 GOP aye's? And we think these guys have our best interest at heart if they get the majority?
Disgusting.
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47 GOP aye's? And we think these guys have our best interest at heart if they get the majority?
Disgusting.
Disgusting but not surprising. You are absolutely correct; just because the GOP may likely win a House majority doesn't mean squat unless they will work in the interest of conservatism. That obviously just isn't going to happen. Nothing will change. The GOP had a full majority for years and they did nothing thanks to McConnell and Ryan.
People need to realize that unless RINO's are kicked out of their seats and replaced with conservatives, nothing is going to change. What needs to happen is seating conservatives at the local level and building conservatism from the ground up. Trying to win this game from the top down won't work.
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Just like in the movie The Sixth Sense, where he doesn't know he's dead. I'm afraid the U.S. is dead, we just don't know it yet. 8888crybaby
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Disgusting but not surprising. You are absolutely correct; just because the GOP may likely win a House majority doesn't mean squat unless they will work in the interest of conservatism. That obviously just isn't going to happen. Nothing will change. The GOP had a full majority for years and they did nothing thanks to McConnell and Ryan.
People need to realize that unless RINO's are kicked out of their seats and replaced with conservatives, nothing is going to change. What needs to happen is seating conservatives at the local level and building conservatism from the ground up. Trying to win this game from the top down won't work.
In DC? There is a better than one in ten chance any given staffer is gay.
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What authority does Congress have to legislate marital law?
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Just like in the movie The Sixth Sense, where he doesn't know he's dead. I'm afraid the U.S. is dead, we just don't know it yet. 8888crybaby
I've thought that ever since the election was stolen and SCOTUS turned their backs on us.
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Ah, the Republicans... in all their glory. *****rollingeyes*****
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Had people not been swayed by the hysterical stampeed of hate and intolernce of by wolves in sheeps clothing stooge of the left-democrats. We would still have Trump in office and the current horror we are living under would not exist. Odd how many are dumb enough to believe that more advice from those that betrayed our interest, is the way out of this mess.
How did Americans get dumbed down this far?
Astonishment!
:smokin: :reaper: twilight zonexxxx :reaper: :smokin:
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What authority does Congress have to legislate marital law?
@Kamaji
I'm with ya on this one. What some people will call "The UGLY truth" is that it's not any of the governments damn business WHO marries WHO,as long as they are both adults and there is no duress involved.
How freaking ironic is it that people who CLAIM to be conservatives want to INSIST of telling other adult Americans how they can live and conduct their personal lives.
Hypocrisy is alive and (not) well in the America of today.