Wednesday, March 27

Democrats approve legal protection of same-sex marriage in the US


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That bill will now go to the Senate, where the tight Democratic majority will need the support of at least 10 Republicans to push it through.

LGBT flag in Washington.Jose Luis MaganaAP
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The United States Lower House approved this Tuesday to protect homosexual marriage by law, after the elimination of the right to abortion by the supreme court has set off alarms over the possibility that more judicial precedents in the country will be eliminated.

The House of Representativeswith a Democratic majority, gave its endorsement with 267 votes in favor and 157 against.

That bill will now be sent to the Senatewhere the tight Democratic majority will need the support of at least 10 Republicans to pull it off.

Regardless of the future outcome in the Upper Housethe progressives can take advantage of a vote that forces the Republican senators to portray themselves in the face of the legislative elections in November, whose campaign already dominates the issue of abortion.

If the Supreme Court does not revoke ‘Obergefell’ (the ruling that protects same-sex marriage), this law will be unnecessary, but harmless. If the decision is reversed, it will be crucial,” said Democratic Rep. jerry nadler in reference to the possibility that the Supreme Court review other legal precedents after the elimination of the protection of the right to abortion.

Nadler thus responded to the Republican Jim Joneswho criticized the democrats’ proposal as “unnecessary”, since in his opinion the Supreme Court ruling on abortion “makes it clear that it cannot be misinterpreted” to apply to other guarantees.

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However, the conservative judge of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas suggested in a concurring opinion to that sentence that various legal precedents based on the doctrine of “fundamental due process” should be reviewed, which includes rulings that protect same-sex marriage or access to contraceptives.

Several homosexual Democratic representatives recalled on Tuesday the day the US Supreme Court protected homosexual marriage with the 2015 “Obergefell v. Hodges” ruling.

“That day, the Supreme Court decided that we had the right to same-sex marriage. Many of us sang the national anthem in front of the court, because when your country catches up with you, it’s a precious thing,” he said. Sean Patrick Maloneyfrom New York.

Another New York congressman, Mondaire-Jones, reminded his fellow Conservatives that “since ‘Obergefell’ nearly 300,000 gay couples have been married.” “Imagine telling the next generation of Americans, my generation, that we no longer have the right to marry whoever we want,” he lamented.

The Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, revoked the ruling on June 24 “Roe vs. Wade”which for half a decade protected access to abortion in the country.

Since then, a large number of activists and progressive politicians have warned of the possibility that the court will do the same with other rights and have called for a vote for their representatives in the legislative elections to ensure that this does not happen.

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