WND Article RatingBiden set to sign bill enshrining same-sex marriage in law
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| "President Biden now has on his desk a bill that would codify same-sex marriage in federal law and, according to opponents, provide legal grounds to prosecute or remove privileges and rights from individuals and institutions that hold to marriage as a lifelong conjugal union between one man and one woman." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The legislation repeals the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act with the aim of protecting same-sex and interracial marriage by requiring the recognition of valid marriages regardless of sex, race, ethnicity or national origin." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and the National Association of Evangelicals have backed the bill, while the Heritage Foundation, the Alliance Defending Freedom and First Liberty have contended the protections for religious liberty are inadequate." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The Baldwin-Collins amendment states that the legislation may not be used to diminish or abrogate a religious liberty or conscience protection otherwise available to an individual or organization under the Constitution of the United States or Federal law." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Unless they embrace the demands of same-sex marriage anti-discrimination requirements hook, line, and sinker, then they will be subject to the same concerns regarding tax exemption and licensure." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Soros also funds drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders, globalism, Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, devaluing America's currency and destroying her sovereignty." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Opponents contend the bill's stated protections for religious liberty are meaningless." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In an op-ed, Lee argued that without his amendment, the Respect for Marriage Act would only exacerbate and nationalize the discriminatory policies already in place in Illinois, Massachusetts, California and the District of Columbia, where religious adoption agencies are essentially shut down unless they recognize same-sex marriage." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "If these groups think that their places of worship and nonprofits will be exempt from anti-discrimination lawsuits and attacks on religious liberty, they are sorely mistaken, Waters continued." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "But opponents contend the amendment negotiated by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has no real power to protect religious liberty." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "As WND reported, some evangelical Christian figures and institutions and the LDS church, to which Lee belongs, support the bill." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "The House voted Thursday - with 39 Republicans joining 219 Democrats - to pass the Respect Marriage Act, and Biden has promised to sign it." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lee asked his Senate colleagues." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "President Biden now has on his desk a bill that would codify same-sex marriage in federal law and, according to opponents, provide legal grounds to prosecute or remove privileges and rights from individuals and institutions that hold to marriage as a lifelong conjugal union between one man and one woman." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Many legal scholars joined Lee, a constitutional law attorney, in contending the Respect for Marriage Act's enshrinement of gay marriage in federal law provides legal grounds to prosecute or remove privileges and rights from individuals and institutions that hold to traditional marriage." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that the bill's language would strip the tax-exempt status from many religious schools, faith-based organizations, and other non-profit entities that hold traditional views of marriage." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The Lee amendment was defeated by a 49-48 vote." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "If Holocaust deniers don't go to hell, there is no GodPrior to Senate's passage of the bill, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, argued on the Senate floor that his amendment was necessary to prohibit the federal government from retaliating against schools, businesses and organizations because of their religious beliefs about gay marriage." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In an op-ed, Lee argued that without his amendment, the Respect for Marriage Act would only exacerbate and nationalize the discriminatory policies already in place in Illinois, Massachusetts, California and the District of Columbia, where religious adoption agencies are essentially shut down unless they recognize same-sex marriage." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Further, the amendment by Collins and Baldwin does not provide explicit protections for people of faith, argued Emma Waters, a research associate for the Heritage Foundation." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Further, the amendment by Collins and Baldwin does not provide explicit protections for people of faith, argued Emma Waters, a research associate for the Heritage Foundation." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "The dozen Republican senators who voted for the bill were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming , Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "But opponents contend the amendment negotiated by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has no real power to protect religious liberty." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "But opponents contend the amendment negotiated by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has no real power to protect religious liberty." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
48% : President Biden now has on his desk a bill that would codify same-sex marriage in federal law and, according to opponents, provide legal grounds to prosecute or remove privileges and rights from individuals and institutions that hold to marriage as a lifelong conjugal union between one man and one woman.48% :The legislation repeals the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act with the aim of protecting same-sex and interracial marriage by requiring the recognition of valid marriages regardless of "sex, race, ethnicity or national origin."
44% : The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and the National Association of Evangelicals have backed the bill, while the Heritage Foundation, the Alliance Defending Freedom and First Liberty have contended the protections for religious liberty are inadequate.
43% : The Baldwin-Collins amendment states that the legislation may not be used to "diminish or abrogate a religious liberty or conscience protection otherwise available to an individual or organization under the Constitution of the United States or Federal law."
42% : "Unless they embrace the demands of same-sex marriage anti-discrimination requirements hook, line, and sinker, then they will be subject to the same concerns regarding tax exemption and licensure."
38% : Soros also funds drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders, globalism, Black Lives Matter, "defunding the police," devaluing America's currency and destroying her sovereignty.
36% : Opponents contend the bill's stated protections for religious liberty are meaningless.
27% : In an op-ed, Lee argued that without his amendment, the Respect for Marriage Act "would only exacerbate and nationalize the discriminatory policies already in place in Illinois, Massachusetts, California and the District of Columbia, where religious adoption agencies are essentially shut down unless they recognize same-sex marriage."
25% : "If these groups think that their places of worship and nonprofits will be exempt from anti-discrimination lawsuits and attacks on religious liberty, they are sorely mistaken," Waters continued.
16% : But opponents contend the amendment negotiated by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has no real power to protect religious liberty.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.