Respect For Marriage Passed The Senate! 🏳️‍🌈

Love wins.

Only 12 Republicans in the U.S. Senate joined the 48 Democrats and two independents in passing a historical law that keeps equality and marriage as the law of the land. Once it likely clears the House of Representatives, President Joe Biden will sign it into law. 

Before the circus of ignorance take control of the House on Jan. 3, Democrats hold lame duck sessions in which bills to keep government running are passed, Biden's nominees to the federal courts are confirmed, losing candidates pack their things, newly elected move in and the continuing go home to brag about how they survived an election.

The Respect for Marriage Act will be the game changer going into 2024 with Democrats already setting sights on making sure Republicans are held accountable for governance. They are going to assure voters that if the Republicans stray into culture wars like they often do, Democrats will keep the pressure on them.

This will be a barrier if the Supreme Court or a state challenges a federal law recognizing same sex marriage and interracial marriage.

12 Republican senators out of 50. 

That will be 38 senator out of 100.

Only 3% of the Republicans seriously believe that marriage should be equal. That means they are against interracial marriage.

Interracial marriage is on the rise.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) broke with the extremists to support the Democrats in passing this bill. 

These senators realized that their party is out of touch. Most of these senators are out of touch.

About 60 percent of Americans support a federal marriage equality law, according to a Politico and Morning Consult poll conducted last summer. Notably, the bill also protects interracial marriages.

The Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas had signalled that he would support overturning the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision. He and the five assholes in the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade which gave women the right to privacy, choice to have a pregnancy or termination. It was overturned and it triggered Republican states to pass statewide bans. 

The Flipper joins Dems in protecting marriage equality,

The measure now heads to the House and, assuming it passes, to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told reporters Tuesday that the House plans to take up and pass the bill as soon as next Tuesday.

The bill does two things: It repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 federal law that banned same-sex marriage, and it requires states to recognize valid same-sex marriages from other states. It also ensures the same protections for interracial marriages.