The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 62-37 to move forward with legislation that would block the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court from reversing its 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage.
to ensure that non-profit religious organizations won’t be required to preside over marriages with which they disagree, and make clear that the bill does not require or authorize the federal government to recognize polygamous marriages.
A statement that Portman released with with Republican senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona called the legislation “a needed step to provide millions of loving couples in same-sex and interracial marriages the certainty that they will continue to enjoy the freedoms, rights, and responsibilities afforded to all other marriages.
Other Republicans who joined the legislative body’s Democrats in voting to move forward with the bill included Utah’s Mitt Romney, Indiana’s Todd Young, West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito, Iowa’s Joni Ernst, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, North Carolina’s Richard Burr, Missouri’s Roy Blunt and Wyoming’s Cynthia Lummis.”the Defense of Marraige Act when Congress approved it in 1996.
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