Same-Sex Marriage Rights Bill Expected To PASS With Support Of 12 Republican Senators

Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would require the federal government to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages. #SameSexMarriage #RespectForMarriageAct #DOMA

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[chbdhbl]

About time Congress is legislating instead of relying on the U.S. Supreme Court.

[Kshthymyla]

Only 12? The voter base has much broader support..

[Msasha]

They need to pass a bill about nursing to patient ratio’s too….

[mackhiggins]

I'm okay with congress actually doing their jobs instead of relying on Supreme Court rulings to basically create law based on precedent. That's how we ended up with the Rowe V. Wade meltdowns last year.

Not sure I agree or disagree with the exact bill, but hopefully, the more congress actually addresses these things, the less chance we'll continue having presidential elections being heavily swayed by these topics the president has no real influence over (beyond potential nomination of new justices).

[jenniferhigber]

Civil rights should NOT be "decided" at the state level. I thought we learned that from slavery and Jim Crow.

[khazoury]

marriage is basically a business contract. period. What's the issue?

[joshstucki]

A temporary country in a temporary place with temporary legislation cannot redefine the eternal, objective meaning of words.
In the end, this doesn't change anything but affirming delusions in some people's minds.

[triptych-dialogue]

I'm a liberal but still platform conservative voices of all types on my podcast and channel. How? I interview random people off the street asking always the same political questions. I don't know if I'm interviewing a conservative or liberal. Why do I do this? To let listeners hear answers from everyday people not just from pundits of the main stream media. It is a way to fight our country's political divide and find common ground. Care to join? You can comment your heart's content I won't censor you.

[sunshine]

They keep working on same bills over and over again yet ignore things that affected everyone.

[Born-Liberated_EmpatheticWorld]

So we only get laws that affect or benefits Congress? WE. ARE. DOOMED.

[dougf]

The difference between marriage and abortion is that marriage is a contract between 2 people that is ongoing, so it needs to not lose it's status as a contract at the state border, while abortion is a singular event that doesn't have to be able to hold it's force of law across a border.

[JCResDoc]

*b4 abortion, bahhahahah!* thats gr8. _JC

[cameronhuey]

Actually no, Briahna, Loving v. Virginia was based on a violation of equal protection mainly so that's 100% safe. Clarence Thomas is in an interracial marriage. This is based on the flawed Griswold v. Connecticut line of cases. Otherwise you're mostly correct in your analysis.

Love the show, but I have to point that out.

[christina]

Abortion and marriage of any kind has no business being regulated by the government. Allow the states to handle it, or churches. If some quack wants to marry their dog, and there's a quack preacher that wants to, whatever.

[theuglykwan]

If Obergefell is overturned, the part of this bill that mandates states recognize marriages from other states will also fall. The part that codifies Windsor will stand.

[mweathers]

Maybe it’s just me, but it seem like Bri is always trying to understand humans through her line of questioning? Like she’s some kind of alien that doesn’t understand why humans have different ideas, thoughts, and beliefs.

I bet she decides what to eat and what outfit to wear based off government polls. Chicken is polling 4 points higher than tacos tonight

[whm_w]

If this passed, Justice Thomas is vindicated. Believing people/legislative can do this over using court to push it.
This is assuming that congressional acts also protected interracial marriage.

[triggered]

Should have been done a long time ago, but I won’t complain. A win is a win. About time this government worked together to get something done.

[BrandonClark-StocksPassports]

It doesn't matter.

Most people are not getting married anyway.
Everybody knows marriage as a institution is declining in America every year.

Marriage in America doesn't mean anything to the general American population anymore

There is more and more American men searching overseas for wives

[spivackl]

But congress CAN'T tell the states what to do. And nobody gets married on the federal level. What does this law actually do???