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Home Front: Politix
US Congress passes bill to protect same-sex marriage
2022-12-10
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The US Congress on Thursday passed landmark legislation to protect same-sex marriage under federal law, and President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
 has vowed to quickly sign the measure.

The vote in the House of Representatives saw 39 Republicans join a united Democratic majority in a rare show of bipartisanship, provoking loud cheers on the floor less than 10 days after the Senate passed the same bill.

The House had earlier approved legislation similar to the Senate’s, but needed Thursday’s vote to reconcile minor differences.

Biden has dubbed marriage equality one of his legislative priorities and has said he will "promptly and proudly" sign the bill into law.

The new legislation, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, does not require states to legalize same-sex marriage but does require them to recognise a marriage so long as it was valid in the state where it was performed.

It repeals previous legislation defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and also protects interracial couples by requiring states to recognise legal marriages without regard to "sex, race, ethnicity or national origin."

House Democrats had worked with urgency to get the bill passed while they still control Congress. Republicans won a narrow majority in the chamber in midterm elections in November and will take control there in January, while Democrats retain narrow control of the Senate.

The Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
 in a 2015 decision legalized same-sex marriages. Hundreds of thousands of couples have married since then.
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Posted by:Fred

#11  The Supremes told us that Pi=3, and Congress backs them up.
Posted by: James   2022-12-10 20:43  

#10  And here: another group 'activated' with little required of Biden.

Federal appeals court bars Biden administration from forcing Catholic groups to provide transgender care

Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-10 17:08  

#9  And some that like to stroke pelt I suppose.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-10 15:48  

#8  But they can be activated as poll workers, community organizers, money finders, general election workers, etc., recruiting a much greater population.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-10 15:47  

#7  still not that big of a voting block to get this much favor.
Posted by: Chris   2022-12-10 14:10  

#6  For example:

FurFest: Inside the world's 'largest' furry convention
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-10 13:51  

#5  Why?
They are a marginalized voting block.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-10 13:44  

#4  Why in the hell are they so set on giving these faggots everything plus more than anyone else is deemed to deserve?
Posted by: Chris   2022-12-10 12:14  

#3  I'm certainly glad that all our other pressing problems have been solved.

But, per #2 above, I suspect that the current Supreme Court could rule that this is a matter for the states, not the federal government. Here's hoping!
Posted by: Tom   2022-12-10 10:39  

#2  Now cite me chapter and verse in the Constitution that this falls under the powers of Congress.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-10 09:51  

#1  
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-10 08:46  

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