KSIChancho t1_iyen69h wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:48 PM

Reply to comment by RollOutTheGuillotine in Josh Hawley voting against inter racial and same sex marriages by SearchingBleach

But that’s my point. I think people are looking at this as an easy way to say “ha! Look at the racist and bigoted people!” Instead of objectively finding out the truth. I have no doubt some of these people are okay with being racist and bigoted but some of them may have had very good reasons to shoot this down. We have no idea

Infernal_Arugula t1_iyf2pdn wrote on November 30, 2022 at 10:31 PM

We do have a good idea. The original bill passed by the house was objected to by many senators for not having enough protection for religious freedom. The current version the senate just passed added protections for religious non profits to not have to officiate or recognize same sex unions. Several of the senators listed above came up with their own amendments that they wanted added that would have afforded even more protection to religious organizations/businesses who want to discriminate against same sex marriages, but those amendments were rejected when Chuck Schumer realized he could get a filibuster proof majority with the way the bill is written now.