BREAKING: Marriage Bill Passes First Senate Vote

The Washington Post reports:



The Respect for Marriage Act would require that people be considered married in any state as long as the marriage was valid in the state where it was performed.

The bill would also repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed states to decline to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. That law has remained on the books despite being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Passage in the Senate required 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. The amended version will return to the House for another vote before it could go to President Biden to sign into law.