Respect For Marriage Act Heads To Biden's Desk * Instinct Magazine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : This new legislation requires federal and state governments to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages.
47% : The Senate passed its own version last week (by a vote of 61-36) with an amendment underscoring protections for religious liberties in order to get the required 60 votes for passage.
42% : In his concurrence opinion, conservative Justice Clarence Thomas specifically recommended the high court consider striking down "demonstrably erroneous" precedents set by rulings like Obergefell v Hodges, the 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide and ended bans in the states that had them.
40% : Should Obergefell be overturned, the new law wouldn't force all 50 states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, only to recognize legally performed marriages.
36% : The legislation, H.R. 8404 - known as the Respect for Marriage Act, officially repeals the hideous Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in 1996, which defined a marriage as the union between a man and a woman and denied federal benefits to same-sex couples.

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