Why the Christian right's falsehoods didn't stop marriage equality

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The Respect for Marriage Act does not codify Obergefell, unfortunately, but it does guarantee same-sex couples federal benefits, and in a possible post-Obergefell world, it would require a state banning same-sex marriage to recognize marriages from other states.
50% : The Heritage Foundation claimed that the bill was poised to put "a giant target on the back of individuals, nonprofit organizations, adoption agencies, schools, and businesses that hold fast to the truth about marriage," while setting "a national policy for same-sex marriage that would declare open season on people of faith."
50% : Far from vilifying religious conservatives, the bill codifies their discrimination against LGBTQ people as "reasonable and sincere" and enshrines in the law protections they claim are necessary to preserve their religious freedom.
49% : The GOP backers -- 39 in the House and 12 in the Senate -- recognize that nearly three-quarters of Americans support marriage equality, and only a narrow minority, primarily white evangelicals, opposes it.
44% : These 51 Republicans (though still less than a quarter of the caucus) rejected false and apocalyptic claims by influential Christian right leaders that the bill would abandon religious Americans to a "woke" agenda and eviscerate their religious freedom -- claims they persisted in making even after senators added expansive religious liberty protections based on their demands.
44% : Rather, it merely provides some protections for same-sex couples in the event the Supreme Court overturns its landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which struck down state bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.

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