Tue Aug 9, 2022 – 6:35 pm EDT
Stop Federal Lawmakers From Forcing Gay Marriage On The States! Tell your Senators to vote NO.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina reiterated his opposition to a Democrat bill to codify forced recognition of same-sex “marriage” and open the door to federal recognition of polygamy, suggesting it was a violation of states’ rightful prerogatives and an attempt to distract from Democrats’ political woes.
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.
Forty-seven House Republicans joined every House Democrat in voting to pass it,
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