President Biden Signs Historic Same-Sex Marriage Bill Following Bipartisan Support in Congress

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : President Joe Biden on Tuesday officially signed the Respect for Marriage Act, affirming federal acknowledgement of both same-sex and interracial marriages.
56% : "The support for marriage equality is so consistent across poll after poll after poll," David Stacy, government affairs director for the Human Rights Campaign, told PEOPLE in an earlier interview.
55% : Despite the conservative justice's opinion, national polls showed record-high support for marriage equality.
52% : The new law is not able to require state governments to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or grant them state-level marriage benefits, as states have the ultimate authority over marriage benefits, second only to the Supreme Court.
49% : After Obergefell v. Hodges -- a landmark civil rights case that reached the Supreme Court, legalized same-sex marriage nationwide on June 26, 2015 -- there seemed to be no reason to continue pushing for it -- until the events of this year.
47% : In July, the House passed RFMA in a 267-157 vote, with 47 Republican representatives joining Democrats in defending marriage equality.
45% : In a concurring opinion on the Roe case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell -- the rulings that currently protect the right to buy and use contraceptives without government restriction, the right to a same-sex relationship, and the right to same-sex marriage.
43% :The Respect for Marriage Act officially appeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which defined marriage as involving a man and woman and gave states the authority to refuse recognition of same-sex couples who had married.
34% : On June 24, in the most significant unraveling of human rights in modern history, the heavily conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating pregnant people's constitutional right to abortion and paving a path to come for contraceptives and same-sex relationships next.

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