As the U.S. House on Tuesday geared up to pass legislation offering federal protection for same-sex marriages, Democrats pointed to the Texas GOP as evidence the party is targeting the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized them across the nation.
Democrats argued the legislation, deemed the Respect for Marriage Act, is necessary after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in a concurring opinion in the abortion ruling last month that the court should also reconsider past rulings establishing rights to contraception, same-sex relationships and gay marriage. The House has also teed up a vote this week on a bill to protect access to contraception.
“Reopening this policy which is under no threat,” said U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, “seems more like an attempt for the Democrats to stoke fear before the November elections, rather than bring the country together.” Cruz called it an example of the court “overreaching” in a recent episode of his podcast, though he also said he doesn’t believe the court has the appetite to overturn it now.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, an Austin Republican, said it was a “question of whether the federal government should tell Texas what marriages they have to recognize, irrespective of what the courts have said.”
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