Democrats are promoting a utopian bill to prevent states from denying licenses to same-sex couples
Anyone who pays attention to American politics knows that abortion was only the tip of the spear. Judge Clarence Thomas said it very clearly when he agreed with the verdict that repealed the protections of abortion at the federal level. “Going forward, we must reconsider all material precedents of the law to be imposed by this court, including Grinswold, Lawrence and Obergefell,” he wrote. “We have a duty to correct the error identified in those precedents.”
The first of these rulings protects married couples’ right to use contraceptives without government restrictions, the second overturns laws punishing sodomy, and the third extends the right to marry to all genders. That is the conservative agenda that promotes the Christian right, and now that of the House of Representatives, which has a democratic majority.
“Because the court is focused on other fundamental rights, we can’t stand by and do nothing,” Speaker Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said announcing voting this week.
The first took place on Tuesday and aims to protect same-sex marriages through the “Respect for Marriage Law,” which will prevent states from denying marriage licenses to couples based on their gender, ethnicity or national origin. This amends the Law for the Defense of Marriage, passed in 1996 during the Bill Clinton administration, which strictly defined marriage as a sacrament between a man and a woman precisely to protect the country from promoting gay rights.
Another vote on this will take place next Wednesday, that of the ‘Contraceptive Right’ Act, which will protect people’s access to contraceptives. All in all, it is more about capturing what has been attempted than achieving it, as it is not clear that these laws can pass the Senate barrier, Solomonic 50% split between the two parties.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz warned in an interview on Saturday that the landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize these marriages was “clearly wrong” because he believed it ignored two centuries of tradition in the country’s history. And many more things. Two centuries ago, women did not have the right to vote, nor were interracial marriages allowed. How far are conservatives willing to go? Only one thing is certain: the social decline at the hands of this court, with lifelong charges, will change the life of an entire generation.
Source: La Verdad
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