Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) celebrated his homosexual son’s marriage ceremony lower than every week after he voted in opposition to a invoice that might defend his son’s proper to have one.
Thompson’s son confirmed to NBC Information on Monday that he “married the love of [his] life” on Friday and that his “father was there.”
A spokesperson for the congressman instructed NBC in a press release that he and his spouse had been “thrilled to attend and rejoice their son’s marriage” and had been “very completely happy” to welcome their new son-in-law to the household.
Home lawmakers on Tuesday handed a invoice, the Respect for Marriage Act, to federally defend same-sex marriages amid fears that such rights could also be subsequent within the firing line after the conservative-majority Supreme Court docket overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had protected abortion rights.
All Democrats and a major variety of Republicans ― 47 of 211 Home GOP members ― voted in favor of the invoice. It’s now within the arms of the Senate, the place its destiny is unsure.
After voting in opposition to the laws, Thompson’s spokesperson instructed the Centre Each day Instances in Pennsylvania that the invoice was “nothing greater than an election-year messaging stunt for Democrats in Congress who've failed to handle historic inflation and out-of-control costs at gasoline pumps and grocery shops.”
The invoice’s bipartisan assist within the Home marked the most pro-LGBTQ vote in congressional historical past. If signed into legislation, it would formally repeal the Protection of Marriage Act, the 1996 legislation in opposition to same-sex marriage that was overturned within the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling by the Supreme Court docket.
In his dissent within the ruling final month that overturned Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas talked about the Obergefell ruling as one which stood to fall by the identical reasoning the conservatives had employed to finish abortion rights.
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