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The United States Senate on Tuesday night passed the landmark Respect for Marriage Act, which will codify same-sex and interracial The post U.S. Senate passes the Respect for Marriage Act.
The bipartisan legislation, which passed 258-169, would also protect interracial unions by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
North Carolina Republicans helped the Senate pass a bill Tuesday evening that would federally protect same-sex and interracial marriages. The U.S. Senate is split evenly between Republicans and ...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday gave its final approval to a bill that enhances legal protections for same-sex marriages. It passed with the support of a dozen Republicans who said it also protects ...
Interracial marriage features prominently in the Respect for Marriage Act. Interracial marriage was first legalized through the landmark supreme court case Loving v Virginia in 1967, in which the Warren court established that the laws prohibiting interracial marriage were in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the ...
Along with Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who eventually led the bipartisan effort with Baldwin, the senators teamed up with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., to try to find the ...
The Senate on Tuesday passed landmark legislation that would codify federal protections for marriages between same-sex and interracial couples. The Senate on Tuesday passed landmark legislation ...
[1] [4] Previously, Pody sponsored the Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act in 2019, which would have prohibited government officials from facilitating same-sex marriages. [5] The House sponsor, Rep. Monty Fritts stated, "This bill was designed to be simply and clearly to protect the rights of the officiate or officiates of wedding ceremonies."