{"id":433823,"date":"2022-12-08T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=433823"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:22:37","slug":"marriage-equality-bill-heads-to-biden-s-desk-following-bipartisan-u-s-house-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/marriage-equality-bill-heads-to-biden-s-desk-following-bipartisan-u-s-house-vote","title":{"rendered":"Marriage equality bill heads to Biden&#8217;s desk following bipartisan U.S. House vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of same-sex marriage unfurl a large rainbow pride flag near the U.S. Supreme Court, April 28, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer\/Getty Images WASHINGTON &#8212; The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill&nbsp;Thursday&nbsp;that would ensure same-sex and interracial couples continue holding many of the rights they have now, should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the cases that established those constitutional protections. The measure now heads to the desk of President Joe Biden, who plans to sign it. The 258-169-1 vote included the backing of 39 Republicans, though many GOP lawmakers argued during debate there was no reason to pass the legislation since the justices have not agreed to take up any cases that would end legal marriages for interracial or same-sex couples. Democrats countered the legislation is essential to assure Americans that should the conservative-leaning court take up such a case in the future, as it did with abortion rights, same-sex and interracial marriages will still be recognized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill&#160;Thursday&#160;that would ensure same-sex and interracial couples continue holding many of the rights they have now, should the U.S. Supreme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}