Same-sex marriage in US: Senate votes in favor of same-sex marriage law
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“Love is love”: US Senate approves same-sex marriage protection law
STORY: The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill by a bipartisan majority designed to protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage. The bill was filed over fears that the Supreme Court could overturn a 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. In June, the Supreme Court overturned the country’s abortion law. The bill passed by a vote of 61 to 36, requiring 60 to pass. Twelve Republicans supported the bill, along with 49 Democrats. The narrow draft law requires all US states to recognize same-sex marriages as long as they are legal in a state. However, the draft does not prevent individual states from banning same-sex marriages or marriages between people of different skin colors.
With a bipartisan majority, the US Senate voted to enshrine gay marriage in law. The law aims to secure the right to same-sex marriage independently of the Supreme Court.
In the US, the right to same-sex Before soon be protected by federal law. The U.S. Senate voted in favor of a corresponding bill on Tuesday evening with a bipartisan majority of 61 to 36 votes. The House of Representatives still has to vote on the draft, which also protects marriages between people of different ethnic groups. However, the approval of the Chamber of Congress is considered certain, because there the Democrats of US President Joe Biden still have a narrow majority. The passage of the law, which had not been given much chance in the Senate in the summer, would be a historic step.
Same-sex marriages were United States legalized by a 2015 Supreme Court decision (known as Obergefell v. Hodges). It declared unconstitutional a 1996 law that established marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman. However, concerns arose this year when the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court reversed the Supreme Court’s abortion-rights ruling dating back to the 1970s. One of the judges, arch-conservative lawyer Clarence Thomas, placed the decision on same-sex marriages in a series of judgments that the court must reconsider.
US President Biden: “Americans should have the right to marry the person they love”
If the court does overturn the 2015 decision and there is no federal legislation, states could refuse to recognize same-sex marriage. Federal law would not force any US state to allow same-sex couples to marry. But it would require states to recognize all marriages legally contracted elsewhere. It also protects existing same-sex marriages. The same applies to marriage between people of different ethnicities.
With the vote, the United States is on the verge of affirming a fundamental truth, the US President said biden. “Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.”
For years, lawmakers have been trying to pass federal legislation that would establish the right to same-sex marriage, repealing the 1996 law once and for all. So far they have always failed. Biden’s Democrats had made a new attempt in the summer – and the draft also passed the House of Representatives. But since im senate If changes were made to the text, the draft must now be passed through the other Chamber of Congress again.
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The Democrats will hold the majority in the House of Representatives until the end of the year. In the next legislative period, due to the mandate gains in the recent midterm elections, the republican barely have control of the chamber. So the Democrats have to hurry to get important legislation through. In the vote in the Senate, all dissenting votes came from Republicans – but at the same time twelve Republicans voted with the Democrats for the law and thus brought the necessary votes.
Majority of the population for the right to gay marriage
A majority of the US population, polls show, support the right to same-sex marriage – and so do a majority of Republican supporters. The Senate should actually vote on the text of the law before the congressional elections in early November. But this has been postponed. For the Republicans, a pre-election vote was considered tricky, they didn’t want to take a position. Many right-wing Republicans had recently placed particular emphasis on trans-hostile statements and thus heated up the mood in the country.
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