One Year After Landmark Marriage Equality Legislation | Opinion
Joe Biden signed my Respect for Marriage Act, making marriage equality the law of the land.This was the culmination of not only months of hard work garnering support from my Democratic and Republican colleagues, but also decades of fighting for equality.This existential fight came to a head when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade, which not only stripped women of their fundamental right to control their bodies, but also put the validity of same-sex and interracial marriages into jeopardy.
In that fateful decision, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Obergefell case, which recognized same-sex marriage, should also be revisited.
This sent chilling shockwaves through the country, with millions of same-sex and interracial couples now questioning if and when their marriage would be on the chopping block.That decision sent me into overdrive to pass my bill to ensure that interracial and same-sex couples were afforded the same rights and freedoms as any other married couple, regardless of what the activist Supreme Court does.
