The House Passed the Respect for Marriage Act. 157 Republicans Voted Against It
Joined by 47 Republicans, all 220 House Democrats voted on Tuesday to approve legislation to protect the rights to same-sex and interracial marriage, hoping to pre-empt any future attempts by the Supreme Court to take them away.
After intense debate, the House voted to codify same-sex and interracial marriage, the Associated Press reports. While 47 Republicans joined House Democrats in affirming these rights, 157 Republicans opposed the bill. Rather than wholly rejecting gay marriage in an election year, most GOPers who voted against the bill portrayed it as unnecessary given the many economic issues, including inflation, happening at home.
The House vote was a response not only to the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade, but to justice Clarence Thomas’s explicit call in his written dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson for the Supreme Court to reconsider two landmark LGBTQ+ rights cases: Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized marriage equality, and Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down the United States’ sodomy laws.
Though the House passed the bill with Republican support, whether Republican Senators will join their counterparts across the aisle is heavily in doubt. That puts Senate Republicans at odds with the American people, a record number of whom (71%, to be exact) support same-sex marriage. An even higher number of people support interracial marriage, with Gallup polling reporting that 94% of Americans support that right, affirmed in the Supreme court case Loving v. Virginia, according to the Associated Press.
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All Democrats apparently voted for it, no one sitting out for factional reasons.
