Interracial marriages to get added protection under new law - Congress passes

God Bless your wife's family and the wisdom of this proposed legislation

 

Something Clarence Thomas can agree with.

 

House passes bill to protect same-sex marriage in landmark vote sending it to Biden | CNN Politics

 

Sad that it had to even come to this, but glad it’s done.

 

Yes, still 169 voted against it - pRo-LiFeRs I’m sure.

 

FYI, here's the Senate vote last week. Still looking for House vote.

U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 117th Congress - 2nd Session

 

Glad this is getting codified before the Gilead caucus takes over the house and tries to dictate who can marry whom.

 

The no votes probably came because it repeals DOMA.

 

Nah. It's the "PrO FrEeDOm" people. They "love" freedom, but not freedom if I choose to marry a dude with that freedom.

 

How can these people not see that they are on the side of evil?

 

If I'm playing devil's advocate here, those who oppose gay marriage will probably ask whether Obama was "evil" as recently as 2012. Personally, I'm sure he was on board before that, but that's another issue. That's how contentious it was. The country has moved faster on this issue than any I can think of in my lifetime. I think that's a great thing, and the polls I've seen indicate support anywhere from 60-70%. Social conservatives who are still mad about gay marriage are now having to focus almost entirely on trans people. That's not to say that gay marriage wouldn't be banned in some states in the Supreme Court allowed it, of course.

 

Yep. I think Obama probably didn’t oppose gay marriage in reality but had to say so for real politic. And didn’t Biden get in at least some warm water with Obama for saying he supported same sex marriage - I seem to remember that.

 

My recollection is that Biden beat Obama to the punch on the public endorsement, whether Biden did that to steal the thunder or whether they planned it that way to take some of the heat off Obama for doing it.

 

I consider myself to be a fiscal conservative but some so called conservatives seem to want to go backwards.

 

Has anyone publicly opposed interracial marriage and threatened to to legally challenge it?

 

If they had not codified this, they may have regretted it later as there is no doubt there is a portion of the gop that would love to ban same sex marriage for sure (and probably some backwards states that would go a step farther and go after interracial marriage).

 

Is that from Thomas opinion, or was there something else in the ruling?

 

Probably not, but with he and his monster of a wife being grandfathered out of any restrictions.