Senate Democrats hope at least 10 Republicans will support Respect for Marriage Act after 157 in House voted against it
. Democrats in the Senate hope at least 10 Republicans will back the bill, thereby beating the filibuster under which the minority can block most legislation.“I don’t understand how such a majority of House Republicans voted no on our marriage as recently as Tuesday, hours after I was, having what I thought were perfectly normal conversations with many of them on that subject, only for them to go around the corner and say that my marriage doesn’t deserve to continue.
“If they don’t want to spend a lot of time on this, they can vote yes and move on. And that would be really reassuring for a lot of families around America, including mine.” Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a prominent conservative nonetheless outside the pro-Trump mainstream of the Republican party, told CNN: “Freedom means freedom for everybody. And I’ve said that that my initial opposition 10 years ago to same-sex marriage was wrong.”“I love my sister very much and her family very much,” she said.
Clarence Thomas, an arch-conservative, suggested rights including same-sex marriage and access to contraception could be reconsidered. The justice, who is Black, did not mention interracial marriage. His wife, the far-right activist Ginni Thomas, is white. Cheney said: “Ensuring that we’ve we’ve provided that kind of protection for same-sex marriage is very important. And so I would urge my Republican colleagues in the Senate to do the same.”
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