{"id":1595127,"date":"2022-08-08T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595127"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:04:13","slug":"states-should-decide-on-same-sex-marriage-sen-graham-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-should-decide-on-same-sex-marriage-sen-graham-says\/","title":{"rendered":"States Should Decide on Same-Sex Marriage, Sen. Graham Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstates-should-decide-on-same-sex-marriage-sen-graham-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. states, and not the federal government, should decide whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-same-sex-marriage\">same-sex marriage<\/a> should be legally recognized,\u00a0Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s comments came during a panel discussion on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d after H.R. 8404, the proposed Respect for Marriage Act, was approved on July 19 by the House of Representatives in a 267\u2013157 vote, with the backing of 47 Republicans. The legislation is pending in the 50\u201350 Senate, where it\u2019s expected to have the support of Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).<\/p>\n<p>Among the Republicans voting for the measure were House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Voting \u201cno\u201d were House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law that defined marriage as the union between one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to accept same-sex marriages recognized under other states\u2019 laws. After then-President Bill Clinton signed DOMA, about 40 states banned same-sex marriage. DOMA was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), a ruling that held that the 14th Amendment requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation would also codify the <em>Obergefell<\/em> ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Respect for Marriage Act supporters say the measure is needed because the Supreme Court\u2019s June 24 decision overturning the 1973 abortion precedent case Roe v. Wade potentially opened the door to the future reversal of <em>Obergefell<\/em> by the court.<\/p>\n<p>Although Graham said he doesn\u2019t think the Supreme Court would actually reverse <em>Obergefell<\/em>, he said neither the court nor the federal government should be deciding the issue of same-sex marriage for the entire nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been consistent. I think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. states, and not the federal government, should decide whether same-sex marriage should be legally recognized,\u00a0Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Aug. 7. Graham\u2019s comments came during a panel discussion on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d after H.R. 8404, the proposed Respect for Marriage Act, was approved on July 19 by the House of Representatives [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}