“The View” Host Slams Republicans for Opposing Gay Marriage Bill
The View, criticized members of her own political party for voting against a bill to codify same-sex marriage into law. Griffin, who previously served as press secretary for former Vice President Mike Pence before serving as White House Director of Strategic Communications, explained how shocked she was seeing the number of Republicans who voted against the bill.“They’re on the wrong side of this,” Griffin said during a recent on-air discussion on the issue. “On the one hand, I’m pleased that the House was able to pass codifying marriage equality into law, but the number of Republicans that were against it — it’s 2022.
This is the easiest issue.”The bill, dubbed the “Respect for Marriage Act,” would enshrine federal protections for same-sex couples, allowing them to marry, regardless of where they live, and ensuring their marriages are recognized as valid for legal purposes.The bill was prompted by a recent Supreme Court decision overturning abortion, as well as comments from Justice Clarence Thomas that the high court should revisit the issue of same-sex marriage.
If the court did decide to overturn its own precedent and reverse the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which effectively legalized marriage equality nationwide, the issue would then go back to the states, with same-sex marriages being nullified or not recognized in 36 different states.Last Thursday, the Respect for Marriage Act passed the U.S.
House of Representatives, with only 47 of 213 Republicans voting for marriage equality, despite same-sex nuptials enjoying support from a majority of Americans, according to recent polling. “Seventy-one percent of Americans are for marriage equality,” Griffin said, citing those statistics.
