Democrats promote a utopian bill aimed at preventing states from denying licenses to same-sex couples
Anyone paying attention to US politics knows that abortion was just the tip of the spear. Judge Clarence Thomas said it very clearly, when concurring with the sentence that repealed the protection of abortion at the federal level. “Moving forward we need to reconsider all the substantive precedents of law due from this court, including Grinswold, Lawrence and Obergefell,” he wrote. “We have an obligation to correct the error established in those precedents.”
The first of these rulings protects the right of married couples to use contraceptives without government restrictions, the second annuls laws that punish sodomy, and the third extends the right to marry to all sexes. That is the conservative agenda promoted by the Christian right, and now also that of the Lower House, which has a Democratic majority.
“As the court takes aim at other fundamental rights, we cannot sit by and do nothing,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announcing the votes that will take place this week.
The first occurred this Tuesday and aims to protect gay marriages through the “Respect for Marriage Law,” which will prevent states from denying marriage licenses to couples based on their sex, ethnicity or national origin. With it, the ‘Law for the Defense of Marriage’ is amended, approved in 1996 during the Bill Clinton government, which strictly defined marriage as a sacrament between a man and a woman, precisely to shield the country from the advancement of homosexual rights .
This Wednesday another vote will be held in this regard, that of the ‘Law for the Right to Contraceptives’, which will protect the ability of people to access them. All in all, it is more about putting on record what has been tried than achieving it, because it is not clear that these laws can pass the barrier of the Senate, Solomonically divided 50% between both parties.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz already warned in an interview on Saturday that the Supreme Court’s historic decision in 2015 to legalize these marriages “was clearly wrong,” because in his opinion 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 do conservatives want to go? Only one thing is certain: The social decline at the hands of this court, with lifetime charges, will change the lives of an entire generation.
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