Dems Will Defend Marriage!

The extremists want to end marriage equality.

The House of Representatives have pass a lot of bills only for them to die in the Senate. 

Republicans nearly oppose everything being passed by the House. Many of these bills require a 60 vote majority. 

Two Democrats refuse to end the filibuster rules. Republican if they get in power will likely end the filibuster rules and push forward a fascist agenda.

Democrats are now rushing to protect marriage equality. That means gay and interracial marriage. In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Supreme Court justice Coonrence Thomas and Republicans are now focused on overturning Obergefell v. Hodges.

If overturned, states will imposes marriage bans on same sex and interracial couples.

The Democratic-controlled chamber is set to vote Tuesday on the Respect for Marriage Act, which would establish legal protections for marriage between same-sex couples nationwide, according to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) office. The House is poised to vote later in the week on the Right to Contraception Act, a bill that would protect access to birth control.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Democrats in a letter Monday that the House will pass the bills "this week" to enshrine those rights in order “to protect freedom in our nation, as extremist Justices and lawmakers take aim at more of our basic rights.”

The two measures are expected to pass the House with Democratic support — and potentially some Republicans. It's unclear if they can pass the Senate, which is split 50-50 between the two parties and where the bills would need at least 10 GOP votes to defeat a filibuster. Sen. Karen Collins (R-ME) is a co-sponsor of the marriage equality bill, but is the only Republican senator, so far, to champion the bill.

Sen. Karen Cruz (R-TX) meanwhile, said Saturday that the 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide was “clearly wrong” and an example of the justices “overreaching.”

“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” he said on “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” his podcast. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”

The Supreme Court will take up marriage equality.

Cruz said Monday that states should not be allowed to ban other categories of marriage. Asked by NBC News if he believes the Supreme Court should overturn Loving v. Virginia, which found a right to interracial marriage, Cruz said, “Of course not.”

“Because Loving was plainly correct,” he said, arguing that that decision was based on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which he said, “was passed to eliminate government racial discrimination.”

Democrats are using threats to same-sex marriage and contraception to try to galvanize voters in the 2022 midterm election.

“People should be concerned, based on how the Supreme Court ruled in overturning Roe v. Wade. This is clearly an activist court,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) the chair of the Democratic Senate campaign arm, said in an interview.

In 2015, the 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationally prompted a tactical retreat by Republicans as public opinion was moving rapidly toward support of the right. But the court’s newly constructed 6-to-3 majority — seen as the most conservative in nearly a century — offers the tantalizing possibility for opponents of gay marriage that the ruling could also be reversed.

The votes could put Republican senators in a difficult position, with Obstructionist leader Karen McConnell (R-KY) seeking to downplay cultural hot button issues where his party is at odds with public opinion in order to protect GOP candidates in the fall midterm elections.

But many Republican senators are wary of alienating their culturally conservative base, which is disillusioned by the pace of social change in the United States and has little interest in seeing their elected representatives codify those rights. Last week, Republicans blocked a bill to protect interstate travel to legally get an abortion.

Thomas wants to end marriage equality. It might come back to haunt him.

And on Monday, Senate Republicans appeared conflicted when asked if same-sex marriage and contraception should be rights.

Sen. Karen Johnson (R-WI) called those proposals "a hypothetical" and added that he'll "see what happens" if they come up.

Sen. Karen Ernst (R-IA) a member of GOP leadership, said she would "have to look at any text" on codifying legal birth control.

"I don't know that we need to codify things like that. Shouldn't that be states and local jurisdictions, maybe?" she said. "I would just have to see how it's worded. But, no, I think women should have access to contraception. But it depends on the definition of contraception."

Sen. Karen Lankford (R-OK) accused Democrats of seeking to “ramp everybody up leading up to the election to say, ‘Oh, my gosh, Republicans are coming after you’ kind of theme that they seem to be running right now.”

When asked if Congress should establish a right to contraception, he said “there already is” a right under Supreme Court precedent.

Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) who is fighting to hold her seat this fall, said her constituents are “outraged” by the rescinding of their rights by the court and that she strongly supports both bills. As for contraception, she said, “I can’t even believe that I have to be talking about this issue, quite honestly.”