A bill to give same-sex marriages federal protection advanced Wednesday in the US Senate with rare bipartisan support, as Democrats rushed to preserve such unions while they still control Congress.
WASHINGTON, United States –
President Joe Biden’s Democrats retained control of the Senate by a razor-thin edge in last week’s midterm elections but Republicans are expected to win the lower House of Representatives, albeit also by a thin majority.In the United States, same-sex unions have been guaranteed by the Supreme Court since 2015.
In mid-July, the House of Representatives passed a law to protect such unions across the country. All House Democrats and 47 Republicans supported the bill, but nearly 160 Republicans opposed it. “Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love,” Biden said in a statement in which he vowed to sign the bill once it was passed. “Today’s bipartisan vote brings the United States one step closer to protecting that right in law.” The bill passed Wednesday does not require states to legalize same-sex marriage. But it does require them to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
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