This week, House Democrats led the way in helping pass the Orwellian titled “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA). It passed with a clear majority of 267 votes for it and 157 against it. What should not escape notice (and what we’ll return to down below) is that 47 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted for it as well.
The bill aims to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which both the Windsor and Obergefell rulings had already severely gutted. The Respect for Marriage Act comes in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in the Dobbs decision that criticized the validity of “substantive due process,” the legal mechanism that progressives have used to discover new rights within the Constitution, of which “same-sex marriage” was one.
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