A bipartisan Senate already passed it last week, and a bipartisan voted in favor of it as well, even though Democrats already held a majority in the House. The act passed with 258-169-1 votes.
39 of those votes were Republicans, which are as follows, reported by The Washington Examiner:
Reps. Kelly Armstrong (ND), Don Bacon (NE), Ken Calvert (CA), Kat Cammack (FL), Mike Carey (FL), Liz Cheney (WY), John Curtis (UT), Rodney Davis (IL), Tom Emmer (MN), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Gallagher (WI), Andrew Garbarino (NY), Mike Garcia (CA), Carlos A. Gimenez (FL), Tony Gonzales (TX), Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Jaime Beutler Herrera (WA), Ashley Hinson (IA), Darrell Issa (CA), Chris Jacobs (NY), Dave Joyce (OH), John Katko (NY), Nancy Mace (SC), Nicole Malliotakis (NY), Peter Meijer (MI), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA), Blake Moore (UT), Dan Newhouse (WA), Jay Obernotle (CA), Kathleen Rice (SC), Mike Simpson (ID), Elise Stefanik (NY), Bryan Steil (WI), Chris Stewart (UT), Mike Turner (OH), Fred Upton (MI), David Valadao (CA), Ann Wagner (MO), and Mike Waltz (FL).
The 12 Senate Republicans that voted in favor of the bill were:
Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Todd Young (R-IN).
I began my career fighting for LGBTQ communities, and now, one of the final bills that I will sign as Speaker will ensure the federal government never again stands in the way of marrying the person you love.
Nancy Pelosi tweeted on Thursday
Biden responded by posting on Twitter that he “promptly” sign the legislature as soon as it is presented to him.
The Hill wrote:
‘The measure enshrines federal protections for same-sex couples, requiring that the federal government and all states recognize marriages if the pair was wed in a state where the union was legal. It also cements protections for interracial couples, ordering states to recognize marriages regardless of “the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.”’
‘Additionally, the measure repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that recognizes marriage as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife” and refers to the word spouse as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife,”’ The Hill added.
As explained in the initial WinePress report covering this the Senate’s passage of the bill, a religious exemption clause was added not long before the voting date, but critics and lawyers said they really don’t cover much of anything and are nothing more than vain words.
Read more about it here.
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Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Ezekiel 13:22
It’s a tale of two sides of the world at this point: Russia is banning most of this garbage in the media and out in the streets, and Indonesia even going so far as to prohibit fornication; but here is the woke joke Divided State of America ensuring its destruction, as with the rest of Western society…
And I only list the Republicans and Neo-Cons to dismantle the right vs. left paradigm lie, that “red wave” or not, wickedness is still be elevated and voted for.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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America is days, not months, not years, but days away from having the axe drop on her.
Sodomites have been unleashed and so are interracial marriages which I am a victim of:
My grandma married a Mexican Catholic who became a pentecostal cult member (just going from the mother to one of her harlot daughters that’s all) and it’s no wonder that marriage had problems and the Lord put my grandfather’s candle out early in 1979 when he died of a heart attack at 62.
My mom married a Muslim man from Syria! Thankfully that marriage ended in divorce, my father is a lying, abusive, fornicating Muslim who was too chicken to tell my mom to her face and had to have a lawyer divorce her by phone. He’s been remarried and I have a half-brother and half-sister.
My dad wanted to name me Marwan after him, and thankfully my mom was like over my dead body and named me Andrew instead.
In this world of sin, Christ delivers the repentant who shoulder their own share of the sin for which they are responsible. There are no victims in that sense, & God is no preferer of men, for all have sinned & fallen short of the glory of God. Boaz was not a victim of his mixed race Moabite, Jewish fleshly heritage, nor was Jesse or David. Their spiritual faith in the good seed of the word of God dna, & their participation & trust in the Mosaic system of that dispensation by faith making the difference, overcoming the shadow& type. The image not being the reality save in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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This is not received, nor accepted in the America that I, & many others, are a part of.
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It’s the narrative they’re pushing in spite of the many to justify their big change without consent or true representation in global corporatist run governance. Our voting system has been broken for some time now, & Quigley spoke truth concerning that & how it was done.
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Rome was instrumental in the establishment of the Fed & the income tax, as well as the later establishment of the US dollar as the world currency; along with the material global corporatists & the Saudi petro cronies. Using fronts & vehicles as always, and to the end of corruption, lies, theft & murder as the spirit that animates her. Rome is also instrumental in its planned destruction & replacement….as blissfully ignorant of God’s plan & redemption of his own as Satan & the Serpent in the beginning when they first brought sin here & tempted men into blaspheming & falling to the temptation bringing the curse.
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To discuss these things without mentioning unrepented & continuing Russian & Vatican porn, abortion practices, sodomy & so forth….the Orthodox Catholic ritual craft & political posturing involved in Russia, along with the hypocrisy of Indonesian Muslim abuse of women & children, infidels….which is off the charts, & more Craft & idolatrous humanism…is to walk through life with one eye shut.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss, & partial reporting, & feeding propagandists’ hate & division games with that head & chief slanderer & accuser of the brethren is not wise. Separate oneself, yes, but don’t call the evil good.