Biden signs bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriages

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday, codifying into law protections for same-sex and interracial couples.
62% : Biden's views, like those of many Americans, shifted to support same-sex marriage over his lifetime.
61% : It specifies that states must recognize same-sex marriages across state lines and that same-sex couples have the same federal benefits as any married couple.
57% : But in 2012 then-Vice President Biden announced his support for same-sex marriage on NBC's Meet the Press, backing the measure even before Obama did.
50% : It means that if the Supreme Court were to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, states that oppose same-sex marriage could outlaw it, as anti-abortion states are doing after this summer's ruling.
48% : Justice Clarence Thomas in his Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization concurring opinion listed the 2015 ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that affirmed right to same-sex marriage, as another landmark case that may be due for review.
45% : The Respect for Marriage Act does not codify same-sex marriage, though.

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