What Next - The Fight to Defend Gay Marriage
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🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 31 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 | Back in June in Warren, Michigan, the state's Republican candidates for governor showed up |
| 0:12.1 | for a debate. |
| 0:14.2 | And this debate felt raucous from the start. |
| 0:16.8 | I was serving the citizens of this state when these guys were in diapers. |
| 0:21.4 | Okay. |
| 0:22.4 | All right. |
| 0:23.4 | In fact, it felt like it was engineered to be raucous. |
| 0:25.4 | I gotta say something real quick. |
| 0:28.0 | This is what everybody came here to see tonight and this is what we need. |
| 0:32.0 | So thank you guys. |
| 0:33.4 | Let's keep it up. |
| 0:34.4 | All right. |
| 0:35.4 | Paddy, it's up. |
| 0:37.4 | Anyway, about halfway through, the moderators pivoted. |
| 0:41.2 | They started asking the candidates about the Supreme Court. |
| 0:45.3 | The Supreme Court and it's a abortion ruling, at least one justice indicated that the Supreme |
| 0:50.5 | Court may be open to reviewing other precedent and possibly undoing laws that allow same-sex |
| 0:56.8 | marriages, making satami illegal. |
| 1:00.5 | Do you think that's judicial overreach and how do you stand on those positions? |
| 1:04.5 | They need to revisit. |
| 1:05.5 | They need to revisit it alone. |
| 1:06.5 | That's one thing as Christians are specifically on positions. |
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