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The New Gay Marriage Bill
This week, Roger Severino, Heritage’s Vice President of Domestic Policy and The Anderlik Fellow, breaks down the so called “Respect for Marriage Act.”
Michelle Cordero: From The Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.
Cordero: This summer in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Congress introduced the Respect For Marriage Act.
Speaker 2: As abortion rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers continue to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Property is voting on a bill to protect marriage equality, out of shrink from the conservative high court could revisit other landmark decisions.
Speaker 3: It simply says each state will recognize the other state's marriages and not contradict a person the right to marry based on race, gender, sexual orientation.
Cordero: The legislation passed the House with the encourage of 47 Republicans. It now moves to the Senate where it would need just 10 Republican votes to pass.
Cordero: Final passage would mean states are no longer allowed to define and distinguish marriage as a legal union between a dude and a woman. Instead, they
Some Republican lawmakers expand calls against male lover marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 judgment on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota include followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the declare House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s Residence Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Day –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills include yet to confront legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions hold no legal command and are not binding law, but instead allow legislative bodies to convey their collective opinions.
The resolutions in four other states ech
A decade after the U.S. legalized same-sex attracted marriage, Jim Obergefell says the struggle isn't over
Over the past several months, Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced measures aimed at undermining same-sex marriage rights. These measures, many of which were crafted with the help of the anti-marriage equality group MassResistance, explore to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell.
MassResistance told NBC News that while these proposals face backlash and wouldn’t alter policy even if passed, keeping contradiction to same-sex marriage in the widespread eye is a win for them. The group said it believes marriage laws should be left to states, and they scrutinize the constitutional basis of the 5-to-4 Dobbs ruling.
NBC News reached out to the authors of these mention measures, but they either declined an interview or did not respond.
“Marriage is a right, and it shouldn’t hinge on on where you live,” Obergefell said. “Why is lgbtq+ marriage any diverse than interracial marriage or any other marriage?”
Obergefell’s journey to becoming a chief for same-sex marriage rights began with his own devote story. In 2013, after his boyfriend, John Arthur, was diagnosed with terminal
At a convention for Southern Baptist church members in early June, delegates endorsed legislation calling for a ban on same-sex marriage and urged legislators to sustain them in this goal.
Although queer marriage is currently protected in all 50 states due to the ruling in Obergefell vs. Hodges in 2015, Justice Clarence Thomas has said he would like to "reconsider" that decision if a similar case were ever to before the court again.
He also said he would be open to reconsidering Lawrence vs. Texas which legalized homosexual sex, and Griswold vs. Connecticut which legalized access to contraception, as these cases were built on similar case law to Roe vs. Wade, which legalized the right to an abortion nationwide, was overturned in 2022.
Why It Matters
The Southern Baptist church is the U.S.' largest protestant denomination, and their endorsement of political causes has sway with GOP politicians, as they are a consistent Republican-voting base. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is one of the country's most powerful Southern Baptists.
This phone to eliminate same-sex marriage comes amid an existing push from President Donald Trump's administration to remove transgender people