{"id":54886,"date":"2022-11-29T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54886"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:10:59","slug":"democrats-succumb-to-political-reality-on-same-sex-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54886","title":{"rendered":"Democrats succumb to political reality on same-sex marriage bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate\u2019s Respect for Marriage Act has progressives arguing that efforts to safeguard same-sex unions remain unfinished after concessions were made to Republican demands for bolstered religious liberty protections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bill as it currently stands would officially repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and require state recognition of legal same-sex and interracial marriages but would not codify the Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex unions nationwide or prevent the high court from eventually overturning the landmark decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be great if the bill went further, but we don\u2019t have the votes for the bill to go further,\u201d Sen.\u00a0Brian Schatz\u00a0(D-Hawaii) told Changing America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is an enormously important first step and I don\u2019t think there are any guarantees that the Supreme Court will not overturn the precedent they set recently with Obergefell, so this is important to protect the rights of same-sex couples across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate\u2019s Respect for Marriage Act&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54887,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54886\/revisions\/54887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}