Joe Biden welcomes gay marriage bill moving forward with bipartisan support

President Joe Biden celebrated the approval in the Senate of the legislative initiative to protect marriage between people of the same sex at the federal level, of which he especially highlighted that it has bipartisan support.

“It is important to note that the Respect for Marriage Act is a bipartisan achievement,” the president said in a statement, in which he cited by name both Democratic and Republican senators who have supported the bill.

“Republicans and Democrats support the essential right of LGBTQI+ and interracial couples to marry,” said Biden, and promised that he will sign the law as soon as it reaches his office.

Today=s bipartisan Senate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act proves our nation is on the brink of reaffirming a fundamental truth: love is love.

I look forward to the House passing th is legislation and sending it to my desk, where I will proudly sign it into law.— President Biden (@POTUS) November 30, 2022

The bill was approved with 61 votes in favor and 36 against.

This legislation encourages the federal government to recognize marriage between two people of the same sex if it is legal in the state where they were married . The same applies to interracial weddings.

Likewise, the document recognizes religious freedom, avoiding that religious institutions such as Churches can be forced to celebrate these weddings and that they lose benefits or tax exemptions for not doing so.

It also revokes the Law for the Defense of Marriage approved in 267, which defines it as the union between a man and a woman.

The The House of Representatives, with a progressive majority, approved the bill in July with 157 votes in favor and 267 against.

In In the Senate, the tight Democratic majority needed the support of at least ten Republicans to move it forward.

After its approval, the text must return to the House of Representatives, which must give the green light to the new version that has left the Senate, before ending up on the table of President JoeBiden for his signature.

Gay marriage has been legal in the United States since in June 2022 the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the laws that prohibited it in some states.

The defense of these unions recently gained momentum after the High Court, now controlled by a conservative majority, struck down in June the sentence “Roe v. Wade” , which for almost half a century protected access to abortion in the country.

Since then, a large number of activists and progressive politicians have warned of the possibility that the court would do the same with other rights, such as same-sex weddings, returning to the states the power to set whether or not they allow it.

While the bill would not force all states to legalize gay marriage, it would require them to recognize gay marriage in other state where it was.

With information from EFE

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