Wed Sep 14, 2022 – 3:40 pm EDTWed Sep 14, 2022 – 3:54 pm EDT
Stop Federal Lawmakers From Forcing Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ On The States! Tell your Senators to vote NO.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — More than four hundred liberal, establishment, and pro-LGBT Republican figures have signed a letter urging GOP senators to support a Democrat bill to codify forced recognition of same-sex “marriage” and open the door to federal recognition of polygamy, which has driven a wedge between the Republican Party and its conservative base months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
HR 8404, the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act,” would repeal the longstanding (but unenforced) Defense of Marriage Act (which recognized marriage as a man-woman union in federal law and protected states’ rights to do the same), federally recognize any “marriage” lawfully performed by any state, and force every state to recognize any “marriage” of any other state “between 2 individuals,” without regard for “the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.” States would only have to recognize one another’s same-sex “marriages,” but the federal government would have to recognize any new union a state comes up with, such as a marriage
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