Same-Sex Marriage Will Finally Be Written Into Law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : After decades of inaction and months or back-and-forths between the House and Senate, lawmakers finally sent a bill to the president's desk on Thursday that would, for the first time ever, codify national same-sex marriage rights into law.
47% : The bill would ensure that the federal government recognizes same-sex marriages, even if a couple is in a state that does not.
45% : With Democrats unable to cobble together the numbers to codify abortion rights, they moved on to protecting same-sex marriage.
44% : The House passed a final version of the same-sex marriage bill 258-169, with all Democrats and 39 House Republicans voting in favor of the legislation.
44% : Before this summer, same-sex marriage wasn't really on Conrgess' radar.
41% : Some changes to the bill were made in the Senate to ensure religious liberties were intact, like ensuring religious non-profit groups would not have to perform same-sex marriages.
37% : But others hemmed and hawed, voicing concerns about religious liberties and protections they felt weren't concrete in the bill text.

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