47 House Republicans voted for gay marriage rights. Your turn, Senate GOP.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Why now?" These Republicans might be surprised to learn just how quickly political support for marriage equality has shifted in the past few years.
53% : As of last year, while a record-high 70% of Americans support marriage equality, a majority 55% of Republicans agree that "same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid."
50% : Given that even just a decade ago the GOP strongly opposed any efforts to advance marriage equality, the fact that almost a quarter of House Republicans voted for the Respect for Marriage Act should be celebrated as a turning point.
50% : Many Republicans openly admit the debate over marriage equality is settled.
49% : Forty-seven Republicans in the House of Representatives made history Tuesday by voting to codify same-sex marriage protections into federal law.
48% : But we also know that many Republicans support the idea of marriage equality or agree it is settled - but are unsure whether this is the right bill to move forward.
48% : Voting to codify same-sex marriages as legally valid puts the Republican Party not just in line with the vast majority of the country, but also with a majority of its own voters.
46% : We acknowledge that some Republicans still remain firmly opposed to marriage equality.
42% : If putting the GOP in line with its own voters is not convincing, then consider that blocking legal protections for same-sex marriages, given its increasingly mainstream acceptance, gives Democrats more fuel for their narrative that Republicans are "anti-gay," out-of-touch extremists.
41% : We cannot afford the distraction of relitigating the marriage equality debate.
35% : They are desperate to pivot the November elections away from the Biden-Harris record by fearmongering that legal protections for marriage equality are on the Supreme Court's chopping block after Roe v. Wade.
29% : We don't buy their argument about the court, notably because the court's majority opinion overturning Roe explicitly stated their decision on abortion has no implications for marriage equality or anything else.
28% : Supporting marriage equality is not a political liability: After President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged that marriage equality was a settled issue in 2016, the base rewarded him in 2020 with the largest number of votes for any Republican presidential candidate in U.S. history.

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