Marco Rubio Tweets Out Bible Verse After Repect Of Marriage Act Passes
div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/22/12/27138784618_e8beb77e54_z.jpg" //divpOn Tuesday, the Senate passed a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/29/respect-for-marriage-act-senate-vote/"the Respect for Marriage Act with bipartisan support,/a codifying equality in federal law protecting gay marriage./p
pTwelve Republican Senators joined with the Democrats to help make this act fly through without a filibuster./p
blockquotepThe Respect for Marriage Act would not force states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples but would require that people be considered married in any state as long as the marriage was valid in the state where it was performed. The bill also would repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed states to decline to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states./p/blockquote
pSen. Marco Rubio has been an advocate emagainst/em this Marriage Act, claiming it was a a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2022/07/marco-rubio-voting-no-codify-same-sex""waste of time"/a back in July. /p
pEven though the bill does have religious liberties embedded into it, Rubio is still upset./p
pRepublicans are using religion as a cudgel against civil rights protections for all Americans. /p
pRubio put out a statement last week that a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/11/rubio-files-amendment-protecting-religious-liberty"lies about the contents of the Act./a/ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2022/11/marco-rubio-tweets-out-bible-verse-after" target="_blank"read more/a/p