Fri Jul 22, 2022 – 5:49 pm EDT
Stop Federal Lawmakers From Forcing Gay Marriage On The States! Tell your Senators to vote NO.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida came out forcefully Wednesday against a “stupid” Democrat bill that would codify forced recognition of same-sex “marriage” in federal and state law and obligate the federal government to recognize polygamous unions should a state choose to legalize them.
Introduced as part of Democrats’ efforts to stoke fear over the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, HR 8404 would repeal the longstanding (but unenforced) Defense of Marriage Act, which recognized marriage as a man-woman union in federal law and protected states’ rights to do the same; federally recognize any “marriage” lawfully performed by any state; and force every state to recognize any “marriage” of any other state “between two individuals,” without regard for “the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.”
Notably, HR 8404’s “two individuals” language only applies to states, not to the federal government. So while states would only have to recognize one another’s same-sex “marriages,” the federal government would have to recognize any new “marriage” arrangement a state
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