Thu Dec 8, 2022 – 12:23 pm ESTThu Dec 8, 2022 – 12:28 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Democrats’ bill to codify same-sex “marriage,” sending it to Joe Biden’s desk for signature.
The bill, titled the “Respect for Marriage Act” (RMA), passed today in a 258-169 vote, with 39 Republicans and all Democrats voting in favor.
The Senate approved the RMA last week in a vote of 61-36. Twelve Republican senators voted for it, even after the Senate rejected three amendments proposed by Republicans to blunt the the bill’s grave harm to religious liberty.
Biden has pledged to sign the legislation “promptly and proudly.”
The RMA makes the redefinition of marriage the law of the land, including in the event that the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that mandates legal recognition of same-sex “marriage” nationwide.
The bill requires the federal government and all 50 states to recognize homosexual “marriages” and other civil marriages between two individuals lawfully performed in any state, potentially including incestuous and underage marriages. It also repeals the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, which federally recognized marriage as between one man and
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