Rubio responded via video, criticizing a range of policies he attributed to Democrats, and said he would focus on “real problems,” not what he characterized as the elite, liberal Democratic agenda. “If they don’t want to spend a lot of time on this, they can vote ‘yes’ and move on, and that would be really reassuring for a lot of families around America.” “Our marriage deserves to be treated equally and I don’t know why this would be hard for a senator or a congressman,” Buttigieg said. On July 24, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is gay and has a husband, criticized Rubio’s stand on the CNN program “State of the Union.” “Marco Rubio told me that he is a NO on House’s same-sex marriage bill, calling it a ‘stupid waste of time,’” Raju wrote on Twitter. The day after the House vote, CNN’s chief congressional correspondent, Manu Raju, asked Florida’s senior senator about it. (Carline Jean / South Florida Sun Sentinel) Rubio and the Senate “It is embarrassing that Senator Marco Rubio of Florida would call a bipartisan effort to protect the freedom to marry who you love a ‘stupid waste of time,’” Demings said. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the 2022 election. Val Demings, D-Orlando, is seeking to unseat U.S. So did 47 Republican members of the House, about a quarter of the party’s representatives, with 157 voting no. The national LGBT Log Cabin Republicans said the legislation would “strengthen civil rights, enshrine marriage equality into federal law, and properly reflect the vast majority of Americans, including Republicans, who support same-sex marriage.”Īll House Democrats supported it. “The chaos the decision has brought to reproductive rights is nothing compared to what overturning Obergefell will do it will tear apart families and eliminate benefits and other financial gains that are a core part of a marriage contract.” “The bill is a recognition that some justices on the Supreme Court, in the wake of the abortion decision, are ready to strike down other privacy rights,” said Stephen Gaskill, president of the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus. Virginia case that laws banning interracial marriage violated the Constitution. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in the Loving v.
The Respect for Marriage Act also requires recognition of legally performed same-sex marriages and adds legal protections for interracial marriages. It is still on the books, though it hasn’t been operative since the 2015 Obergefell ruling. The proposed law would repeal the old “Defense of Marriage” law, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act on July 19. He told a CNN reporter that the dealing with the issue was “stupid waste of time.” (Rich Pope / Orlando Sentinel) Proposal and the House He has become the most vocal Floridian serving in Washington, D.C., opposing federal legislation to put the right to same-sex marriage into law. Marco Rubio at a campaign event at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista on June 17, 2022.