The Virginia Senate on Feb. 19 approved a bill to repeal the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, bringing the issue one step closer to voters in 2022.
Senate Joint Resolution 270, sponsored by state Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), would amend the section of Virginia’s constitution that addresses marriage and would repeal the 2006 amendment that blocked same-sex couples from legally marrying.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision invalidated it. The Senate’s 22-12 vote follows the Virginia House of Delegates’ 60-37 vote on Feb.
4 to repeal the amendment. State Dels. Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax County) and Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington County) were the chief sponsors of the House version of the bill. “For 15