Deceptively-Titled "Respect For Marriage" Act Disrespects Marriage And Religious Beliefs
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Democrats have been pushing a new bill called the "respect for marriage" act that will counteract the defense of marriage act that established that marriage as an institution was one man, one woman.
In doing so, it appears to intentionally trample religious, moral Americans' good-faith objections, ultimately compelling their speech and action in unconstitutional ways. The MTA team unpacks the bill itself, GOP attempts to salvage it, and Nick's solution.
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| 0:00.0 | Resolved that the bill from the House of Representatives, |
| 0:03.0 | H.R. 8404, entitled an act to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act |
| 0:08.0 | and ensure respect for state regulation of marriage and for other purposes |
| 0:11.0 | do pass with the following. |
| 0:14.0 | Section 1, this act may be cited as the Respect for Marriage Act. |
| 0:19.0 | That is the opener to the text for the respect for marriage act. |
| 0:22.7 | We're going to discuss today what does this bill actually do and what are the implications? |
| 0:27.4 | Because a lot of times the text or the messaging can sound really nice, |
| 0:30.9 | but there can be second and third order effects that people have not anticipated, |
| 0:34.7 | or in this case that they have anticipated and are being deliberately ignored. |
| 0:38.7 | We're gonna go over all of that on this episode. |
| 0:41.6 | Thanks so much, Nick. |
| 0:42.5 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm really looking forward to today's conversation |
| 0:45.4 | because this is kind of a complicated tangle of an issue. |
| 0:48.4 | I have reason to suspect that this act |
| 0:50.5 | does not actually respect marriage at all, |
| 0:52.7 | but we will find out for sure. You guys should |
| 0:55.1 | join us in conversation about this over on our Volley app. And let's get into the actual text |
| 0:59.8 | of the bill to see what it really says. All right, going around the table real quick. I am your host, |
| 1:04.5 | Nick Freitas member of the Virginia House of Delegates, but other than that a good person. With me |
| 1:07.9 | is always my beautiful bride, Tina, Queen of the Bees. Hello, everyone. |
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