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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • The Senate has voted 62-37 to advance a bill protecting same-sex marriage.
  • The bill would require the federal government to recognize any marriage that was legal in the state it was performed.
  • Lawmakers pushed for the bill over concerns that the Supreme Court could overturn other rulings that protected individual freedoms.

The Senate has voted to advance a bill providing federal protection of same-sex marriage.

On Wednesday, the 100-member Senate voted 62-37, passing the 60 votes required to advance the bill for debate before a final vote on its passage. Twelve Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in supporting the motion.

The motion will require the federal government to recognize any marriage that was legal in the state it was performed. However, it will not block states from banning same-sex or interracial marriages if the Supreme Court allows them to do so.

A similar bill was passed in the House in July, with 47 Republicans voting with all of the chamber’s Democrats.

The bill will still undergo several procedural hoops in the Senate before it returns for a final approval at the House. It will then be turned over to the president for his signature.

Lawmakers expressed concern over individual freedoms following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protections for abortion in June. Justice Clarence Thomas had written in his concurring opinion that the court should look into overturning other precedents, such as the 2015 ruling that legalized gay marriage.

One of the bill’s key negotiators, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), said on Tuesday that her constituents had expressed concern over “the suggestion that their right to marry who they love will be taken away.” Baldwin is the first openly gay person elected to the Senate.

Same-sex marriage has become more widely accepted within the past decade. Even the Mormon church, which once vehemently opposed its legalization, announced its support for the bill. On Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), a Mormon, voted in favor of the bill.

Still, the bill had to undergo months of negotiation to ensure that it will protect an established right without neglecting religious liberties.

A key negotiator, Sen.Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), said the bill was “a good compromise… based on mutual respect for our fellow Americans.”

Other negotiators who supported Baldwin and Tillis were Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

President Joe Biden said that the vote proved that “Republicans and Democrats can work together to secure the fundamental right of Americans to marry the person they love.”

The U.S. Census Bureau lists about 568,000 married same-sex couples in the United States.

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25 Comments

25 Comments

  1. CPO Bill

    November 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Got no issue with same sex marriage. Do not support the trans crap! God made us as born, male or female! No man can change Gods work!

    • Rev. Joseph Raya

      November 18, 2022 at 7:24 am

      God also says that marriage is a union of a man and a woman, so as to be able to procreate. Two men together can’t procreate, just as two women together cannot procreate. If you’re not up to 100 percent of what God asks of us, then just stop posting that you care what God says, because it’s very clear you don’t. Stop trying to change God’s work. Hell is waiting for people like you & them.

      • Spot On

        November 18, 2022 at 7:49 am

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:44 am

      No issue with same sex marriage?
      X
      Sorry, not spot on

  2. Lee Blanchard

    November 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    This is bull crap. In no circumstances should this be recognized as legal. If a common law husband or wife is not recognized by Social Security then by gum neither should garbage like this. Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN, biological men and women.

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:50 am

  3. Lione camus

    November 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Pompeo is a traitor to his own country. The truth will be out very shortly

    • 57Thunderbird

      November 18, 2022 at 7:28 am

      Hang that son of a bitch. He’s such a coward. Fry this bitch immediately

      • Spot On

        November 18, 2022 at 7:51 am

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:50 am

  4. Anthony Rannazzisi

    November 17, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    62+47=109???

  5. Lione camus

    November 17, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    Let them do it and let them go all to hell.there going against god

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:29 am

  6. Ray

    November 17, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    Marriage is between a man and a woman. I also believe homosexuals and lesbians should not be legally allowed to adopt. If they want kids that bad they should have married opposite sex.

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:36 am

  7. Sean Rickman

    November 17, 2022 at 8:23 pm

    With the midterm election farse and now the no matter what gender marries bill,our country has turned pretty much into a cesspool with the obama/biden/pelosi herd stirring the ingredients.The only good news is that pelosi is supposedly quitting,probably to keep a close watch on pauli boy.

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:37 am

  8. JD

    November 17, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    This is yet another Dark Day in the United States. They continue to shove their putrid agenda down our throats. It is not a matter of individual freedom, rather, elevating a class above the rest. YHWH never intended for a man to lay with a man nor a woman with a woman. It is expressly forbidden in Scripture. This is the intent of the Evil One. Consider why depression and suicide rates are so high among the homosexual community. Perhaps they struggle with their own conscience. Government should never endorse such behavior.

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:39 am

  9. Rodrigo Diaz De Bivar

    November 17, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    All this proves is, that man in their insane ignorance and disobedience to God’s ruling He made centuries ago on this issue continues to imply that man knows best when it comes to the abnormal and unnatural sex acts of these rebellious people who think their in God’s favor. Had Adam and Steve been joined together in the Garden of Eden, humanity wouldn’t be here now so evidently, a man and a woman was a much better idea especially for procreation which these misguided loons don’t understand. In Holy scripture, God calls this unnatural sexual activity an abomination and for man to try to change His ruling on this issue is total insanity but, that’s alright, when their lives are over and have to stand before the judgment seat of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is then, they will find out the hard way, they blew it. Enough said.

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:41 am

  10. Satan

    November 18, 2022 at 7:10 am

    Same sex marriage is a scam. It’s dirty, disgusting, filthy and completely gay. This should never have been legal anywhere in the USA. The exact same thing applies to interracial marriage. This also is dirty, disgusting, filthy and completely gay. Very heavy jail terms for first time offenders should scare off any other punks who dare tries to destroy our fabric of society, our way of life. Get lost freaks, the whole world wants you to die and burn in hell for eternity.

    • Spot On

      November 18, 2022 at 7:42 am

      ✓✓

    • Jerome Campbell

      November 18, 2022 at 9:19 pm

      Good one, brother.

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