Thu Jul 21, 2022 – 4:46 pm EDTThu Jul 21, 2022 – 5:52 pm EDT
Stop Federal Lawmakers From Forcing Gay Marriage On The States! Tell your Senators to vote NO.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Largely overlooked amid all the coverage and speculation about Republican support for Democrat legislation to federally codify recognition of same-sex “marriage” is the fact that the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” would also force the federal government to recognize polygamy if and when a state legalizes it.
Introduced as part of Democrats’ efforts to stoke fear over the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, HR 8404 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 two individuals,” without regard for “the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.”
Democrats are selling the bill as a way to ensure homosexual unions are unaffected by a hypothetical future ruling overturning 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges, which forced all 50 states to
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors