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Citing states’ rights, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced an anti-gay marriage bill, asking Congress to amend U.S. law “with regard to the definition of ‘marriage’ and ‘spouse’”.
According to The Huffington Post, the Texas Republican introduced the bill on Wednesday asking the Senate to amend U.S. law “with regard to the definition of ‘marriage’ and ‘spouse’ for Federal purposes and to ensure respect for State regulation of marriage.”
Stating that he supports “traditional marriage”, Cruz said “The Obama Administration should not be trying to force gay marriage on all 50 states. We should respect the states, and the definition of marriage should be left to democratically elected legislatures, not dictated from Washington. This bill will safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for its residents.”
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the federal government has allowed gay married couples to file jointly on federal tax returns regardless of state residence and has permitted surviving spouses of gay married couples to collect Social Security benefits, along with any other benefits that were previously only available to heterosexual marriages.
Currently seventeen states recognize same-sex marriage
Sigh. No. Theres a reason we have a law that says states must respect the legal agreements passed in other states. Its logical. This is just a emotionally driven religeous based attack looking for a way to NOT respect other states contracts. This is idiocy at a high level.
Next it will be what? Custody agreements? "yeah the dad won custody in X, but as can be seen when state Y has differing laws we shouldnt respect the other states agreements"
Sorry, but your hatred is ruining your ability to think logically.
Which kinda tells you, Cruz is wasting time and money. This is government waste at its finest....What a great guy huh?
To be fair members of both parties introduce bills in both the Senate and House that have little to no chance of passing all the time. With that being said they don't typically alert the press when they do. Regardless, similar to Amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, getting struck by lightning after winning the lotto jackpot is more likely than this passing.
I'm good with gay marriage as I have mentioned many times. I don't see how one person's marriage impacts another person's marriage and if marriage is a good thing, I like that more people who love each other can partake in it.
But, what's scary to me is the overturning of what people voted for in their state on any issue.
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