.ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Pres. Biden signs historic legislation protecting same-sex and interracial marriage.
that killed 49 people, and plaintiffs and counselors from the Obergefell and Loving Supreme Court cases.months of negotiationThe House voted last week 258-169 to send the bill to Biden's desk after the Senate passed it 61-36. A minority of Republicans joined Democrats in both votes.
Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion, said he believed the court should reconsider other precedents based on similar legal doctrine, including 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges -- which found that the 14th Amendment requires all states to license same-sex marriages. Biden celebrated the Respect for Marriage Act's passage last week, saying then that it will "give peace of mind to millions of LGBTQI+ and interracial couples who are now guaranteed the rights and protections to which they and their children are entitled."
"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties," Biden said during an interview at the time on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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