The U.S. Senate passes the bill for the protection of same-sex and interracial marriages. The bill was passed by bipartisan legislation to be enshrined in federal law. The bill won the voting with 61 votes in opposition to 36 votes with the aid of 12 Republicans.
The historic bill passing saved the Democrats from losing their unanimous control over Capitol Hill. Democrats still having more numbered representation in both Congress chambers are in a move to proceed with the bill through the House to the President’s pen.
The vote results were welcomed and the Republicans are to rise to the majority in the House of Representatives in the coming January.
With the bill getting through the Senate, a dynamic change is supposed in U.S. politics on the controversy of the protection of same-sex marriages. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in 2015 and this act is accepted nationwide by same-sex couples and activists.
The President, Joe Biden is reportedly looking forward to signing the Bipartisan-Senate negotiated bill. He stated that the vote reaffirms the fundamental truth of love and that the people of America should have the right of marrying the person they love.
Statistically, 7 Americans out of every 10 are in favor of same-sex marriages. This bill survives the senate with not having a fate similar to abortion law.
Chuck Schumer, Senator of New York and fellow Democrat said that everyone should be proud of the teamwork that now empowers the rights of Americans under federal law.
He wore a purple tie, and teared up on the Senate floor as the law now protects the marriage of his own daughter who is expecting a child with her wife. He recalled the conversation on the same thing that he had with his daughter in 2020 after the passing away of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She was the justice who stood up for the constitutionality of same-sex marriages. Since her demise people were concerned about whether gay marriages would be reversed or not.
He said that he wants her daughter and her wife to raise their baby with the love and security that every single child deserves.
Cynthia Lummis, Senator of Wyoming and fellow Republican, assumes that taking this particular step would be an integral one in the nation’s survival and she called for more tolerance during the turbulent times.
Senate witnessed religious conservatives numbering to 7 in 10 Republicans taking stands against the bill and the act of same-sex marriages. Mitch McConnell, the Senator of Kentucky led the opposition and shattered the hopes of his political peers that he would turn to support the bill at the voting.
The opponents proposed three amendments citing the protection of religion-driven institutions. There were extreme right-sided opinions that the legislation would act in the indirect advertisement of polygamy.
Simultaneously religious communities in favor of the bill were also present such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Michael Bennet, Senator of Colorado and fellow Democrat recalled the opening of fire in an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub of Colorado. The incident reported the death of five people. He, highlighting the necessity to protect gay Americans said that the U.S. would never succeed in flourishing if it keeps on depriving the rights and freedoms to a certain community of minority.
In the previous summer 47 Republicans of the House shifted to Democrats and Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin and fellow Democrat, have been making repeated attempts to gain back support from the Republican side.
He is the first-ever openly gay Senator and has been an advocate of the gay rights and LGBTQ movements for above forty years. He recollected the older days in which people could not openly be gay and queer was still considered as a stereotype or myth.
Baldwin remarked it as history that the bill would permit more individuals and their families visibility in society, and the transformation of the minds of millions.
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