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A bipartisan group of senators Americans announced this Monday that it has reached an agreement to advance the bill that seeks to protect at the federal level the marriage between people of the same sex.
The House of Representatives it had approved that legislation in July and the vote in the Senate was postponed in September until after the midterm elections, which were held on November 8.
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The amendment proposed and disseminated by Republican and Democratic senators stresses that this bill will not give rise to the recognition of polygamous unions and will not have an impact on religious freedom.
The vote, as indicated this Monday by the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck SchumerIt will start this coming Wednesday.
”No American should be discriminated against because of the person they love. Passing this bill would ensure much-needed safeguards in federal law”, he said in the Upper House the same day that it resumed legislative activity after the elections on the 8th.
The agreement reached between the legislatorsrecognizes the importance of marriage” and maintains that “same-sex and interracial couples deserve dignity, stability and permanent protectionof that union.
This bill promotes the federal government to recognize a wedding between two people if it is valid in the place where it took place, and guarantees that “full faith and credit” is given to those marriages regardless of sex, race, ethnicity or origin of its members.
The mobilization around the defense of homosexual marriage gained momentum after the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, repealed the sentence on June 24 “Roe vs. Wade”, which for half a decade protected access to abortion in the country.
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Since then, a large number of activists and progressive politicians have warned of the possibility of the court doing the same with other rights, such as same-sex weddings.
In the Senate, a qualified majority of 60 votes will be needed for it to go ahead and the tight control of the Democrats in that chamber makes the Administration of Joe Biden require the support of 10 Republican senators.
After the vote there, the bill will return to the House of Representatives so that it can carry out the final vote on a date yet to be defined, sources from the Lower House explained to EFE.
Source: Elcomercio
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