Respect for Marriage Act

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill aimed at protecting same-sex and interracial marriage at a celebration expected to attract thousands of ...

It replaces the Defense of Marriage Act, which in 1996 defined marriage as between a man and a woman, [The New York Times reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/politics/biden-same-sex-marriage-bill.html). Supporters said it was necessary in the wake of an earlier decision from the Supreme Court that rescinded the right to abortion nationwide and returned the decision to state lawmakers. It also ensures that same-sex couples are entitled the same federal benefits given to other married couples, Original report: “Congress took a critical step to ensure that Americans have the right to marry the person they love,” Biden said last week in a statement. And will you be loyal to that person you love? Deciding whether to marry, who to marry, is one of the most profound decisions a person can make.”

Some met in law school; others grew up together. They have started families, adopted children and survived cancer. On Tuesday, President Biden signed ...

She said she and Amber fear that even with the law’s passage, a large share of Texans “will personally not recognize our marriage and not respect our marriage.” “To just be the same as everyone else and not have to worry … They were one of the first couples in Wheeling, W.Va., to be married after the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal. Years ago Peter and I were working in the garden, and my grandmother said to us, ‘You are special people, you’re just like your aunt and her partner, don’t let anyone ever take that away from you.’” I had a daily discussion about the fact that our marriage could be at risk,” Jesse said of his union to Maskey. By the time they found each other, Joan had two previous marriages to men under her belt, and Carole — who had dated men earlier in life — was resistant to the “whole concept of marriage,” she said. “It proved to me that American society is much more progressive than we give it credit for,” he said. But this is our home, and this is where we want to be.” “I was around when our family backed away, and I didn’t understand what was happening,” she said. “I got just as teary,” Marissa said. “The people that will support you because they love you don’t necessarily see the impact of the larger political climate and how that personally affects your humanity. I’ll have to adopt him in six months,” she said.

December 13, 2022. NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the following statement after President Joseph Biden signed into law the Respect ...

I thank President Biden and our congressional leaders, as well as every advocate and ally who has and continues to fight for our LGBTQ+ neighbors in New York City and across America. As LGBTQ+ freedoms are under systemic attack across our society, sparking a rise in hate and violence, we can now celebrate a bipartisan achievement that protects the rights of LGBTQ+ and interracial couples. One of my proudest moments as a legislator was voting in favor of marriage equality in New York State, and this law takes an important step to mandate recognition of same-sex marriages in all 50 states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed into law the bipartisan ...

“Today’s signing of the Respect for Marriage Act marks historic, long-overdue action to protect marriage equality, enshrining into federal statute legal protections for same-sex and interracial couples in Virginia and throughout our country. As we continue to push forward progress, I will always work to guarantee the rights of all my fellow Virginians and fellow Americans.” Virginia, protecting civil liberties, and furthering equality for all Americans.

The act codifies protections for same-sex and interracial marriage by mandating that states recognize lawful unions performed in other states. It does not ...

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President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, codifying protections for same-sex and interracial couples. The bill passed with bipartisan support ...

She went on to quote a San Francisco champion for LGBTQ rights and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. "It's one thing for the Supreme Court to rule on a case," Biden said. But in 2012 then-Vice President Biden announced his support for same-sex marriage on NBC's Meet the Press, backing the measure even before Obama did. Connecticut, the 1965 ruling in which the Supreme Court said married couples have the right to obtain contraceptives and Lawrence v. Texas, which in 2003 established the right to engage in private sexual acts. Hodges, the case that affirmed right to same-sex marriage, as another landmark case that may be due for review.

President Biden will sign into law Tuesday a bipartisan bill that will codify same-sex and interracial marriages with a large celebration on the South Lawn ...

"As a queer woman, as a queer woman of color in this country, who's married, I was worried that at some point that the courts would also invalidate my marriage. The Respect for Marriage Act wouldn't change that, but it requires all states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and federally recognizes these marriages." In the Dobbs decision, which overturned the right to an abortion earlier this year, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court " In 2004, the issue of same-sex marriage was a lightning rod. [said on NBC's Meet the Press](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47311900). This bill does not guarantee the right to marry. DOMA defined marriage as between a man and a woman and blocked federal recognition of same-sex marriages. That's far from a majority of Republicans, and it's reflective of the fact that rank-and-file Republican voters have lagged in support of same-sex marriage. Three days before he went on Meet the Press, Gallup found 50% of Americans approved of same-sex marriage. Back in 1967, just 3% of Americans were in interracial marriages. Through the mid-'90s, Americans were still split on the subject. This week's NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found now that number has more than doubled to 43%, but is still shy of a majority.

AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law.

"Today, our country takes a major step forward in the fight for equality as the Respect for Marriage Act is signed into law."

We'll protect the gains we've made in the struggle for equality and build on them in the years to come. "Make no mistake: As your Governor, I'll never stop fighting for the LGBTQ+ community. Our nation has reached this historic moment in no small part because of the efforts of New Yorkers: trans activists like Marsha P. "Today, our country takes a major step forward in the fight for equality as the Respect for Marriage Act is signed into law. No matter who you are or who you love, you deserve to be treated with dignity and respect in the Empire State." Contact us by email: "New York is proud to be the home of the Stonewall Inn and the birthplace of the modern movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, gay and lesbian leaders like Larry Kramer and Edie Windsor, and allies currently in elected office including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, RFMA Sponsor Representative Jerry Nadler and the bipartisan members of the New York Delegation who supported this law. Contact us by phone: Contact the Governor’s Press Office Thanks to the leadership of President Biden, a longtime champion of the LGBTQ+ community, this new bipartisan law will finally repeal the outdated, discriminatory law known as DOMA and ensure the federal government treats all marriages equally.

It is hard to believe that 55 years after the landmark Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia to legalize interracial marriage, we have finally ...

This crucial law ensures federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, guaranteeing all rights and benefits afforded through marriage, and finally repeals the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. We applaud our leaders in Congress for providing a bipartisan path forward on this issue and moving our country another step closer to true equality. Virginia to legalize interracial marriage, we have finally codified into law the basic human right to love freely.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released the following statement on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. We extend a heartfelt thank you and our ...

It protects the grants, licenses, contracts and accreditation of religious schools. It protects the tax-exempt status of religious organizations. Their efforts to protect religious freedom as Congress sought to codify the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision are both historic and commendable.

This will be the first major LGBTQ+ civil rights bill signed into law since the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. “A decade ago, then-Vice President ...

We need to harness the momentum of this key victory for equality and guarantee explicit nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans in all key areas of life through the Equality Act. “A decade ago, then-Vice President Biden made history when he came out in support of marriage equality, and today, President Biden has made history again by signing the Respect for Marriage Act into law,” said Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David N. With President Biden’s signature, the Respect for Marriage Act will immediately repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act and ensure critical protections for same-sex and interracial marriages at the federal level.

We look forward to a new morning in America where all marriages are truly respected by and for all.

Respect for different beliefs when it comes to the institution of marriage is made clear in the following key passage contained within [the legislation](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8404/text), which reads as follows, We have no doubt that this legislation would not be possible today were it not for civil rights leaders such as [Bayard Rustin](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/rustin-bayard), among others who forcefully and heroically advocated for dignity and equality before the law. Hunt is the president of the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy. Moran is the president of Log Cabin Republicans. Ultimately, once it is signed into law by President Biden, this legislation will prove to be a monumental achievement for civil rights in this country. [Most Americans](https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/09/28/5-vast-majority-of-americans-know-someone-who-is-gay-fewer-know-someone-who-is-transgender/) know and love family members and friends who are members of the LGBTQ+ community and want them to be able to enjoy the dignity and protection afforded by marriage. [Respect for Marriage Act](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8404) last week — after the U.S. Hodges](https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-556). Senate and the U.S. [12 Republicans in the U.S. In both the U.S. Senate](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/who-are-12-us-senate-republicans-who-voted-protect-same-sex-marriage-2022-11-30/), [39 Republicans in the U.S.

The legislation requires states and the federal government to continue to recognize same-sex marriages, reaffirming some of the protections granted in the ...

And if judges decide, after Dobbs, to treat Obergefell as less worthy of respect as precedent — as simply requiring the state to license marriages for same-sex couples, rather than give more full-throated respect to same-sex couples’ families — then the rights of same-sex couples remain under threat. When a woman in a married same-sex couple gives birth, she and her spouse should both be treated as legal parents based on the marital presumption of parentage that has long applied to married different-sex couples, treating the birth mother’s husband as the legal father. It can’t shore up the legitimacy of Obergefell in the courts. Windsor, striking down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and thus requiring the federal government to treat marriages of same-sex couples as valid. The Act also repeals another part of the Defense of Marriage Act, requiring states to treat marriages of same-sex couples from other states as valid. for the solemnization or celebration of a marriage.” Would these new federal accommodations preempt contrary state law, like that in New Jersey? The first relates to what the Act does. The religious nonprofit in that case seems to have denied, in the words of the Respect for Marriage Act, “facilities . [Douglas NeJaime](https://law.yale.edu/douglas-nejaime) explains some of what the Respect for Marriage Act does and doesn’t do. Do they now have a new basis on which to engage in the refusal? 8, the Respect for Marriage Act passed the House with bipartisan support 258–169, sending a bill to protect same-sex marriages at the federal level to President Biden’s desk for his signature. [It’s a Scary Future in the U.S.

Religion News Service column on the U.S. Catholic bishops' opposition to the Respect for Marriage Act.

There are legitimate concerns that Catholic charities and hospitals have over religious freedom, but who is going to believe anything the bishops say in the future. [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/11/13/lds-leader-dallin-oaks/), the bishops are unwilling to negotiate reasonable compromises with people with other concerns. In their arguments they shot down the false accusations that the RMA would threaten religious liberty. They wanted the bill passed and knew that it would be scuttled by accusations that it threatened religious institutions. Instead, in response to the Respect for Marriage Act, the bishops said that Catholic institutions will lose their tax exemptions; Catholic social services will not get government funding. “Their claims about funding and tax exemptions in the Respect for Marriage Act are just false,” said Laycock. Supreme Court ruled that the nursing homes run by the Little Sisters of the Poor did not have to offer birth control in its employee insurance plan. “They have opposed religious liberty legislation, and they opposed health care for uninsured Americans.” Neither politicians nor Catholic voters care what the bishops say anymore. No one could have known that the court’s new majority would go so far.” In a letter addressed to members of Congress before the vote, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, chairman of the U.S. In addition, the court even supported Hobby Lobby, a secular business, in its opposition to certain forms of birth control.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Biden signed into law H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act. With President Biden's signature, the Respect for ...

We need to harness the momentum of this key victory for equality and guarantee explicit nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans in all key areas of life through the Equality Act. “A decade ago, then-Vice President Biden made history when he came out in support of marriage equality, and today, President Biden has made history again by signing the Respect for Marriage Act into law,” said Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David N. With President Biden’s signature, the Respect for Marriage Act will immediately repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act and ensure critical protections for same-sex and interracial marriages at the federal level.

Today, I sign the Respect for Marriage Act into the law. (Applause.) Deciding whether to marry, who to marry is one of the most profound decisions a person can ...

(Applause.) When hospitals, libraries, and community centers are threatened and intimidated — (coughs) — excuse me — because they support LGBTQ children and families, we have to speak out. And we have to protect these children so they know they are loved and that we will stand up for them and so they can seek for themselves. When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, this is still wrong. Wade and the right to choose. I called him right after that historic victory — a victory not just for the plaintiffs, but for the whole country and, I would argue, for the world. (Applause.) Equality and dignity for the LGBT community has always been her North Star, from her first speech on the House floor pledging to end AIDS and signaling the bill — and signing the bill today. So, Edie took her case to the Supreme Court and she won. (Applause.) And a special thanks to our performers: Joy, Sam, and Cyndi. In the Senate, this bipartisan vote simply would not have happened without the leadership and persistence of a real hero: Tammy Baldwin — Senator Tammy Baldwin. (Laughter.) Marriage — I mean this with all my heart — marriage is a simple proposition: Who do you love, and will you be loyal with that person you love? And it is part of a larger fight.

Vice President Kamala Harris joined fellow politicians in celebrating President Biden signing the landmark Respect for Marriage Act for LGBTQ rights.

Biden was also joined at the signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and First Lady Jill Biden. For the occasion, she wore a black senator from California, she also introduced a bill to end the use of the gay and transgender panic defense and marched in the San Francisco Pride Parade in a rainbow and crystal-embellished jacket to voice her support for the LGBTQ community.

Madison resident Shelbi Day said new protections for same-sex and interracial marriages are a relief. But she added more work is needed to repeal state bans ...

the freedom for our families to be able to marry, and that [upwards of 90 percent of Americans](https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx) support interracial marriage." She said being a part of the day will likely mean a lot more to her when she gets older and fully understands the importance of the new law for their family. "And I think she could just feel the joy and energy in the crowd." In a concurring opinion to the U.S. "I also took my 7-year-old daughter with me, which was quite special to be able to share that with her." Shelbi Day is chief policy officer for Family Equality, a national organization working for equality for LGBTQ+ people and their families.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk through the Cross Hall of the White House lit with rainbow colors following an event commemorating LGBTQ+ Pride ...

"As a queer woman, as a queer woman of color in this country, who's married, I was worried that at some point that the courts would also invalidate my marriage. The Respect for Marriage Act wouldn't change that, but it requires all states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and federally recognizes these marriages." In the Dobbs decision, which overturned the right to an abortion earlier this year, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court " In 2004, the issue of same-sex marriage was a lightning rod. [said on NBC's Meet the Press](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47311900). This bill does not guarantee the right to marry. DOMA defined marriage as between a man and a woman and blocked federal recognition of same-sex marriages. That's far from a majority of Republicans, and it's reflective of the fact that rank-and-file Republican voters have lagged in support of same-sex marriage. Three days before he went on Meet the Press, Gallup found 50% of Americans approved of same-sex marriage. Back in 1967, just 3% of Americans were in interracial marriages. Through the mid-'90s, Americans were still split on the subject. This week's NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found now that number has more than doubled to 43%, but is still shy of a majority.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — With the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act signed into law, many LGBTQ individuals across the United States honored the signing ...