What Next - The Fight to Defend Gay Marriage
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🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The “Respect for Marriage Act” protects same-sex marriages nationwide and already has bipartisan support. If put to a vote in the Senate, it seems likely to pass. So why aren’t Democrats making it a priority?
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:36.0 | Back in June in Warren, Michigan, the state's Republican candidates for governor showed up for a debate. |
| 0:43.0 | And this debate it felt raucous from the start. |
| 0:47.0 | I was serving the citizens of this state when these guys were in diapers. |
| 0:52.0 | In fact, it felt like it was engineered to be raucous. |
| 1:07.0 | Anyway, about halfway through, the moderators pivoted. They started asking the candidates about the Supreme Court. |
| 1:15.0 | This Supreme Court in its abortion ruling, at least one justice indicated that the Supreme Court may be open to reviewing other precedent |
| 1:23.0 | and possibly undoing laws that allow same-sex marriages, making satamy illegal. |
| 1:30.0 | Do you think that's judicial overreach and how do you stand on those positions? |
| 1:35.0 | They need to revisit. They need to revisit it alone. That's one thing that's Christian. |
| 1:40.0 | One by one, each of these candidates began to express far right views. |
| 1:52.0 | As was mentioned, Article 1, Section 25 of our Constitution, Michigan Constitution says that for the betterment of society, marriages between a man and a woman. |
| 2:02.0 | I draw the line where God does and that's where I stand. |
| 2:06.0 | I'm just happy to say my partner is my wife. |
| 2:13.0 | All right. New topic, Patty. |
| 2:20.0 | I called up Mark Joseph's turn because I wanted to chew over this moment with someone. Mark covers the Supreme Court for Slate. |
| 2:28.0 | He's watched over the past few weeks as the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has spawned all of these other fights about whose civil rights count. |
| 2:40.0 | I think there's a sense of, well, what's happening next because we've won this once in a generation, once in a century victory, but we've got to keep the momentum going. |
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