Landmark legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriage rights is expected to be signed by President Biden after the House joined the Senate in passing the Respect for Marriage Act with bipartisan support.
"Not only are we on the right side of history, we're on the right side of the future, expanding freedom in America," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was joined by Republicans who joined Democrats in supporting the statute.
, there was renewed concern that the more conservative court could reverse that decision, after Justice Clarence Thomas suggested same-sex should be reconsidered in an opinion issued in the"This statute makes clear that no matter what the Supreme Court does, marriage includes same-sex weddings," said Chemerinsky, "The bill was also changed to make clear that no religious entity has to perform a wedding that it doesn't want to perform.
"It means the world to me." George Smith, an Oakland resident who married his husband Don Hamilton in 2013 after being together for 23 years. The Respect for Marriage Act also included historic language to protect interracial marriages, which were made legal in a 1967 Supreme Court"In 1948, there were 30 of the 48 states had laws against interracial marriage. It wasn't interracial, it was whites marrying people of color. So they didn't care if Blacks and Latinos and people of Asian descent married. It really was about protecting whiteness," said john a.
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