{"id":3525,"date":"2022-07-20T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:09:51","slug":"house-passes-same-sex-marriage-bill-backed-by-47-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE PASSES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL, BACKED BY 47 REPUBLICANS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Article Source: The Epoch Times<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

The Democrat-controlled lower house passed the Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. <\/a>8404), a bill that codifies same-sex marriage into U.S. law, with a bipartisan 267\u2013157 vote; 47 House\u00a0Republicans\u00a0backed the bill. The bill now heads to the Senate, where 10 Republican votes are needed to overcome the filibuster threshold.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cSpecifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman and spouse as a person of the opposite sex with provisions that recognize any marriage that is valid under state law,\u201d reads the bill\u2019s summary on Congress\u2019s website.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe bill also repeals and replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages based on sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin,\u201d the bill\u2019s summary continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) introduced the bill on July 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The passage of the bill came a month after the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization (pdf), a decision that overturned the 1981 landmark abortion decision, Roe v. Wade. The highest court opined in Dobbs that decisions affected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment should be \u201creconsidered.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In his concurring opinion to Dobbs\u2019s majority ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas said that \u201c\u2018substantive due process\u2019 is an oxymoron that lack[s] any basis in the Constitution\u201d and that \u201cthe Due Process Clause does not secure any substantive rights.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For this reason, Thomas said that \u201cin future cases, [the justices] should reconsider all of this Court\u2019s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,\u201d and that \u201cbecause any substantive due process decision is \u2018demonstrably erroneous,\u2019 we have a duty to \u2018correct the error\u2019 established in those precedents.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nadler takes the position that same-sex marriage is a \u201cfundamental right\u201d targeted by the Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThree weeks ago, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court not only repealed Roe v. Wade and walked back 50 years of precedent, it signaled that other rights, like the right to same-sex marriage, are next on the chopping block,\u201d said Nadler in a July 18\u00a0press release.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAs this Court may take aim at other fundamental rights, we cannot sit idly by as the hard-earned gains of the Equality movement are systematically eroded. If Justice Thomas\u2019s concurrence teaches anything, it\u2019s that we cannot let your guard down or the rights and freedoms that we have come to cherish will vanish into a cloud of radical ideology and dubious legal reasoning,\u201d Nadler continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over the last weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) publicly reaffirmed his stance that policies on issues such as gay marriage and abortion should be left to state legislatures to shape.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cruz previously voiced opposition to Obergefell v. Hodges (pdf<\/a>), the 2015 Supreme Court decision in which the 5\u20134 majority ruled that the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantee the fundamental right to marry to same-sex couples.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cObergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation\u2019s history,\u201d Cruz told podcast\u00a0Verdict+. \u201cIn Obergefell, the court said, \u2018no, we know better than you guys do,\u2019 and now every state must sanction and permit gay marriage. I think that decision was wrong when it was decided. It was the court overreaching.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd had the court not rolled Obergefell, the democratic process would continue to operate: if you believe that gay marriage was a good idea, the way the Constitution is set up for you to advance that position is to convince your fellow citizens. And if you succeeded in convincing your fellow citizens, then your state would change the laws to reflect those views,\u201d the senator added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 18, 2021. Following the final Congressional Budget Office cost estimate, House Democrats are hoping to vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social benefits and climate legislation on Nov. 18. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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