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US Senate passes bipartisan bill protecting same-sex marriage

The Respect for Marriage Act now returns to the Democratic-led US House of Representatives for a final vote.

Al Jazeera

U.S. Senate gives final passage to same-sex marriage bill without support from Cruz and Cornyn

The bill is largely a safeguard against potential action by the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, which made the Defense of Marriage Act unenforceable and enshrined the right to same-sex marriages across the country.

The Texas Tribune

Federal Gay Marriage Bill Returns to Senate for Lame-Duck Session Vote

If passed, same-sex couples wouldn’t need to worry about Supreme Court precedents.

Reason

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What is the state of gay marriage in the US?

In the last decade, the number of same-sex married households more than quadrupled. States in the Northeast and along the West coast tend to have higher shares of same-sex married couples.

USAFacts

Law professors alarmed by Supreme Court

One professor slammed the court for its “screamingly, unapologetically activist" abortion ruling

Salon

Editorial: Supreme Court's Roe ruling threatens same-sex rights. Congress must protect them

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively allowing Missouri and other red states to immediately outlaw abortion, many who supported that decision scoffed at warnings that same-sex marriage and even interracial marriage rights could be next. Now, as congressional Democrats and some Republicans push legislation to protect marriage…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scared after the fall of Roe, these 2 Texas women rushed to tie the knot

Following the Supreme Court's decision, Carlie Brown and Molly Pela rescheduled their wedding for nine months earlier. They fear that without federal protections, their family remains vulnerable.

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Republican went to son’s same-sex wedding days after voting against equal marriage rights

Glenn Thompson voted against Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify the right to have a same-sex marriage into federal law

The Guardian - US

Editorial: After Dobbs, same-sex marriage could be threatened. Congress is right to codify it

With the upheaval caused by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade came aftershocks of worry about what could come next. Could, as Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in his concurring opinion, same-sex marriage get lined up in the court’s crosshairs as a future target? Contraception? Interracial marriage?

Chicago Tribune

Heidi Stevens: The world is on fire. Why are we debating people's right to marry who they love?

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime where we stop saying same-sex marriage. Where we just say marriage.

Tribune News Service

Five Thoughts About The Respect for Marriage Act

Today the Respect for Marriage Act passed the House by an unexpectedly large margin. And there is movement afoot to see if the bill will garner ten Republican votes to break a Senate filibuster. Ilya addressed the bill here. I'd like to add five more thoughts. First, one of the…

Reason

Congress Considers Gay Marriage Bill To Avoid a Future Supreme Court Showdown

Passing an actual law is a good and proper way of enshrining recognition.

Reason

Without Obergefell, most states would have same-sex marriage bans

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, but in most states, laws or constitutional amendments would revive the prohibition if the high court decides, as it did with abortion, that such unions are not a constitutionally protected right.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The end of Roe will lead to baseless attacks on gay rights

Within hours of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion was banned in 13 states when so-called trigger laws went into effect. The grim impact of criminalizing women’s choices about their bodies will be stark and immediate, but predictable.

Los Angeles Times

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Justice Thomas and Loving v. Virginia

He already addressed the ruling at length in his Obergefell dissent.

Reason

Scalia's "Prophecy" in Lawrence And The Joint Dissent in Dobbs

That awkward moment when Justice Breyer joins an opinion that criticizes his join in Lawrence.

Reason

On Justice Thomas, Dobbs, Precedent, and Substantive Due Process

In his Dobbs concurrence, the senior associate justice reiterates his outlying views on precedent and his belief that all substantive due process decisions were "demonstrably erroneous."

Reason

Today in Supreme Court History: June 26, 2003, June 26, 2013, and June 26, 2015

6/26/2003: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. 6/26/2013: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in U.S. v. Windsor. 6/26/2015: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

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Miami Herald

After Supreme Court ends abortion rights, fears in Florida that same-sex marriage is next

MIAMI — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion has raised alarms in Florida that same-sex marriage could be struck down next in a state where the constitution still has language defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Reason

Why Other Fundamental Rights Are Safe (At Least for Now)

The conservative majority's commitments on contraception, sexual intimacy, and same-sex marriage

Reason

American U. Law Students Investigated for "Harassment" for Insulting Comments About Abortion in Group Chat

The complaining student alleged the students' remarks were "harassing and threatening" him because of his conservative "political affiliation" and his "religious beliefs."

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