The House of Representatives, where the Democrats have a majority, has tonight passed the “respect for marriage” law. The law will legislate same-sex marriage throughout the United States, for fear that the country’s highest court will revoke the right to this, writes NBC News.
The majority was 267 against 157; 47 Republicans voted in favor. Now the law must pass the Senate, where the proposal needs the support of at least 10 Republicans – which may prove difficult.
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Same-sex marriage has been the case law since 2015, when the Supreme Court, with a narrow majority, ruled in the so-called Obergfell vs. The Hodges verdict.
Since then, through Donald Trump’s new appointments, the Supreme Court has received a majority of Christian conservative judges, who in June overturned Roe vs. The Wade Judgment from 1973 – which protected the right to self-determined abortion.
Now liberal politicians fear that gays’ right to marry goes the same way, and are trying to get the Supreme Court ahead, after Judge Clarence Thomas has proposed reversing Obergfell vs. Hodges. He has also proposed removing the right to contraception.
