Tomorrow: House Votes On Codifying Marriage Equality

ABC News reports:

A bipartisan group of House members and senators introduced a bill, the Respect for Marriage Act on Monday, which would enshrine marriage equality for the purposes of federal law and provide additional legal protections for marriage equality.

“The Supreme Court’s extremist and precedent-ignoring decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has shown us why it is critical to ensure that federal law protects those whose constitutional rights might be threatened by Republican-controlled state legislatures,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in a statement Monday.

The Respect for Marriage Act would officially repeal the Defense Against Marriage Act, which specifically defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed individual states to not recognize same-sex marriage that were recognized under other states’ laws.

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The vote is set for tomorrow. It’s not clear if the Senate will take up the bill before its August recess.

The House is set to vote on a bill this week that would codify same-sex marriage into federal law. https://t.co/li4KchX0V1

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