Wed Aug 3, 2022 – 6:07 pm EDT
Stop Federal Lawmakers From Forcing Gay Marriage On The States! Tell your Senators to vote NO.
(LifeSiteNews) — The conservative Family Research Council (FRC) announced that it will work to replace every Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who backed a Democrat bill to codify forced recognition of same-sex “marriage” and open the door to federal recognition of polygamy.
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 of more than two people.
Wisconsin Family Action president Julaine Appling noted that the bill “lays a foundation for the IRS or other federal agencies to
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