This week, Joe Biden celebrated the second anniversary of the Respect for Marriage Act, which did nothing new besides substitute the phrases “man” and “lady” with “people.”
Biden posted on X Friday, championing his so-called “landmark civil rights invoice.”
Two years in the past, I signed into legislation the Respect for Marriage Act, a landmark civil rights invoice that protects all {couples} – all love – beneath legislation.
As a result of there are few issues as clear and proper as marriage equality. pic.twitter.com/OAWy7qvQoa
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 13, 2024
Congress summarizes the Act as the next:
This act gives statutory authority for same-sex and interracial marriages.
Particularly, the act replaces provisions that outline, for functions of federal legislation, marriage as between a person and a girl and partner as an individual of the other intercourse with provisions that acknowledge any marriage between two people that’s legitimate beneath state legislation. (The Supreme Courtroom held that the present provisions have been unconstitutional in United States v. Windsor in 2013.)
The act additionally replaces provisions that don’t require states to acknowledge same-sex marriages from different states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full religion and credit score or any proper or declare regarding out-of-state marriages on the idea of intercourse, race, ethnicity, or nationwide origin. (The Supreme Courtroom held that state legal guidelines barring same-sex marriages have been unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015; the Courtroom held that state legal guidelines barring interracial marriages have been unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.) The act permits the Division of Justice to carry a civil motion and establishes a personal proper of motion for violations.
The act doesn’t (1) have an effect on non secular liberties or conscience protections which might be accessible beneath the Structure or federal legislation, (2) require non secular organizations to supply items or companies to formally acknowledge or have fun a wedding, (3) have an effect on any advantages or rights that don’t come up from a wedding, or (4) acknowledge beneath federal legislation any marriage between greater than two people.
Nonetheless, same-sex marriage has been authorized since June 26, 2015, following the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Evidently, this ruling didn’t do sufficient for the intercourse and gender-crazed Democrats as they pushed to repeal language like “man” and “lady” within the Respect for Marriage Act with “people.”
Although this legislation handed in 2022, Democrat VP nominee Tampon Tim Walz lately claimed that same-sex marriage is illegal in Nebraska, the place he was born and raised.
However to not fear, Joe Biden stepped in an unintentional fact-check of Walz’s lies, celebrating the laws as he prepares to go away the White Home.
His best accomplishment was not a legislation defending People from unlawful immigrants, crime, or inflation, however apparently one which enacted same-sex marriage legal guidelines that have been already in place. This precisely sums up Biden’s final 4 years of prioritizing LGBTQ points they usually/thems over on a regular basis People and Christians.
Perhaps two years from now, Biden will look again at his proclamation of Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility. Although, he may need a tough time recalling this blasphemous motion.
